Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2005 Reserva de la Familia is a blend of 85% Tempranillo and 15% “other varieties” that is aged for 20 months in new French and American oak. It has a sophisticated bouquet of dark red cherries, cold black tea and a touch of blueberry that is succinct and beautifully defined. The palate is medium-bodied with fine, saturated tannins. It is silky smooth in texture with a sensual finish of cranberry, wild strawberry, white pepper and a touch of dark chocolate. This is effortless and pure class. Drink now-2022+
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.