Winemaker Notes
Cherry red, clean and bright. Resounding on the nose with aromas of red fruits, strawberries and cherries along with licorice and tertiary aromas of the aging that are reminiscent of vanilla, coconut and toffee. In the mouth, a curiously fresh mid palate that allows us to perceive the richness of the fruit, with hints of aging notes that intensify the flavor of the well-filed tannins.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Aromas of plums, dark cherries, dried herbs, coconuts and sweet spices. It’s medium-to full-bodied with creamy tannins. Fresh and balanced with a velvety texture. Caressing, supple finish.
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Wine Spectator
Delivers a deep minerally streak of smoke and fresh earth enmeshed with dark berry and cherry fruit, dried fig, herbed olive and espresso notes. Medium-bodied and fresh, with light tannins emerging on the spiced finish. Tempranillo, Mazuelo and Graciano. Drink now.
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.