Winemaker Notes
Magnificent aromatic expression, with an overflowing fruit, in its right ripeness, and balsamic notes. Enveloping tannins and precise texture complete an incisive and profound wine.
Blend: 100% Tempranillo
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Terreus Cima de Cueva Baja has the spicy nose that made it famous. It's a blend from an exceptional lieu-dit at 800+ meters above sea level where the old vines deliver 3,500 kilograms of grapes per hectare. It fermented destemmed in stainless steel, where it also underwent malolactic. The élevage was in French oak barrels and lasted for 20 months. It has notes of ripe berries, aromatic herbs and that creamy and spicy twist. It's suave and full-bodied, with very fine and elegant tannins, and it's juicy and silky, filling your mouth, with clean and focused flavors that last for a long time. It's very fine-boned, exceptional for the conditions of the vintage.
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Wine Spectator
A core of raspberry coulis is rich and juicy in this stylish red, layered with refined, taut tannins and accents of wild sage, cocoa powder, tar and iron. Shows zesty drive, with cracked pink peppercorn, smoked paprika, cumin and graphite notes animating the firm and focused finish. Tempranillo. Best from 2027 through 2042.
Spanish red wine is known for being bold, heady, rustic and age-worthy, Spain is truly a one-of-a-kind wine-producing nation. A great majority of the country is hot, arid and drought-ridden, and since irrigation has only been recently introduced and (controversially) accepted, viticulture has sustained—and flourished—only through a great understanding of Spain’s particular conditions. Large spacing between vines allows each enough resources to survive and as a result, the country has the most acreage under vine compared to any other country, but is usually third in production.
Of the Spanish red wines, the most planted and respected grape variety is Tempranillo, the star of Spain’s Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions. Priorat specializes in bold red blends, Jumilla has gained global recognition for its single varietal Monastrell and Utiel-Requena has garnered recent attention for its reds made of Bobal.