Winemaker Notes
Clean and brilliant, deep ruby red wine, very perfumed with mature fruit aromas. Complex and elegant. Satin textured, showing fine tannins and a seductive leather palate. Sleek and refined licorice tinged finish.
Ideal companion for grilled or barbequed red meat, stew, and slightly spicy dishes. A powerful wine that enhances the flavor of rich or cured cheeses like Manchego.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This dark-garnet-colored wine has a nose of Mission fig and caramel. Bright at first sip, it offers blackberry, red-plum, mocha and butterscotch flavors that are backed by opulent tannins and wellintegrated acidity. A touch of smoke lingers on the palate. Evaton, Inc.
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.