Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2014 Triga is a selection of the best vineyards they have in Alicante, a blend of Monastrell with 15% Cabernet Sauvignon fermented in stainless steel and matured in French barriques for 20 months, where it also undergoes malolactic. It's always a ripe and powerful wine, with 15.5% alcohol. Tasty and spicy, generously oaked, with good ripeness and very clean and balanced in its XL style. There is a segment of the public that wants wines like this, while others will find it too oaky. It's very good in its style.
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James Suckling
The caramelized walnut note on the nose is rather striking, and this wine tastes fresher and much less massive than its 16% alcohol suggests, at least until you get to the warm finish. Best from 2018.
Spanish red wine is known for being bold, heady, rustic and age-worthy, Spain is truly a one-of-a-kind wine-producing nation. A great majority of the country is hot, arid and drought-ridden, and since irrigation has only been recently introduced and (controversially) accepted, viticulture has sustained—and flourished—only through a great understanding of Spain’s particular conditions. Large spacing between vines allows each enough resources to survive and as a result, the country has the most acreage under vine compared to any other country, but is usually third in production.
Of the Spanish red wines, the most planted and respected grape variety is Tempranillo, the star of Spain’s Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions. Priorat specializes in bold red blends, Jumilla has gained global recognition for its single varietal Monastrell and Utiel-Requena has garnered recent attention for its reds made of Bobal.