Winemaker Notes
Red ruby color with a distinctive brick rim. Deep and intense nose, showing vanilla notes, coffee, spices, and ripe red fruit. Dry leaves, leather and nutty notes are from the bottles aging period. On the palate, the wine is balanced and silky. Exceptionally pleasant, this wine has a persistent yet elegant aftertaste. Its complex and intense personality will make it evolve in a very positive way over the next years.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Intense aromas of figs, dried cherries, toasted coconut, caramel, mushrooms and sweet herbs. It’s medium-bodied with firm, sleek tannins and fresh acidity. Rich array of spice and dried fruit, with persistent freshness.
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Wine Spectator
This medium-bodied red features fragrant tar, leather and iron notes, which make for a savory skein winding through flavors of baked black cherry, mocha and licorice. Serves up well-integrated, fine-grained tannins, with a tang of orange peel acidity lending freshness.
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.