Winemaker Notes
It is a wine with a high layer, cherry red color and a bright red rim. The color is more intense than usual. Very intense and fruity, with the profile of red fruits, even with some notes of blackness in the background. It reminds of the ripe cherry. The oak is almost imperceptible, the fruit takes over the aroma currently. Freshness and aromatic herbs of shade, join the smell of the undergrowth. It has good volume, larger than usual. The freshness is noticeable, and it is full of ripe red fruit. The sensation of ripe cherries picked from the tree and the flavor of cherry flesh sticking to the bone. It has good tannins, something present now. It is very long in the palate and leaves the memory of ripe and fresh fruits at the same time.
Blend: 89% Tempranillo, 7% Garnacha, 4% Graciano
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Pure and precise fruit with blue and red berries, stones, flowers and subtle spices. Vibrant and full of fruit on the palate with very fresh acidity and some fine, nicely steely tannins. Good concentration.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 Sela is a preview of what's to come from the vintage with its bigger brothers, fresh wines with stuffing and balance in this cooler year. This is very serious, clean, balanced, delicious to drink and is among the finest vintages for this bottling. It was produced with 89% Tempranillo, 7% Garnacha and 4% Graciano with classical parameters, 14% alcohol, a pH of 3.6 and 5.35 grams of acidity. Rating: 92+
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.