Winemaker Notes
Deep cherry color with aromas of red pome fruits, cherry and plum, with a subtle contribution of wood in the background. Wide and forceful in the mouth, with good length throughout the palate, with the fruit predominating over the spicy notes of the barrel, which complement and extend it in the end. Harmonious and with a good aftertaste.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This violet-red-colored wine has a bouquet of black cherry, orange zest and forest floor. It is juicy at first, with flavors of cherry and strawberry and then rigid tannins step in, joined by notes of dark chocolate, violet and citrus zest. Fruit overpowers the tannic structure and returns to the palate in time for a lifted 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.