Winemaker Notes
This wine has a dark cherry color with a violet crown. The aromas are powerful and intense aromas of ripe black fruits together with toasty notes of oak. It also presents vanilla and chocolate fragrances. In the mouth this wine is fleshy and fresh. It is very fruity and presents warm, tasty tannins. It has a round finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Fresh and focused, this sleek, lively red shows black cherry, wild berry, licorice, mineral and toasty flavors that glide over the palate, supported by well-integrated tannins and bright acidity. A graceful, modern style.
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Tasting Panel
Dark and juicy with clean, smooth red fruit and good acid structure; long and bright, lush and balanced. 90% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano.
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.