Winemaker Notes
Deep garnet red with bright highlights. On the nose, ripe fruit with spicy notes of black peppers and cinnamon. Balanced, powerful and flavorful on the palate with blackberry and redcurrant notes, in harmony with vanilla and caramel.
Drink with red meat, grilled or smoked fish, and soft cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Walnuts, sweet tobacco, dark berry fruit and toasted coconut aromas follow through to a medium body, spicy core of fruit and chewy tannins. Tasty, with good bite.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
MY PUBLISHED NOTES: The 2019 Bodegas Lan Xtreme Crianza is an excellent red wine. This wine shows aromas and flavors of candied berries, ripe blackberries, hints of toasty oak, and sandalwood. Enjoy this with grilled lamb shanks. (Tasted: July 13, 2024, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Spectator
A bright, expressive red, with spice box, red licorice, mountain herb and violet accents to the flavors of ripe cherry and boysenberry fruit. Medium-bodied and balanced, with light, fine tannins and a juicy finish.
Hailed as the star red variety in Spain’s most celebrated wine region, Tempranillo from Rioja, or simply labeled, “Rioja,” produces elegant wines with complex notes of red and black fruit, crushed rock, leather, toast and tobacco, whose best examples are fully capable of decades of improvement in the cellar.
Rioja wines are typically a blend of fruit from its three sub-regions: Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Oriental, although specific sub-region (zonas), village (municipios) and vineyard (viñedo singular) wines can now be labeled. Rioja Alta and Alavesa, at the highest elevations, are considered to be the source of the brightest, most elegant fruit, while grapes from the warmer and drier, Rioja Oriental, produce wines with deep color, great body and richness.