Winemaker Notes
Cherry red color with a thin brick-red edge showing its longer barrel age. Aromas of ripe blue and black fruits, toffee and balsamic as well as some mineral notes. The silky mouthfeel is combined with fresh acidity.
Elegant and persistent, the wine is a perfect match for any grilled meats, steaks,
stews. It also accompanies charcuterie, steaks and even game and stronger cheeses.
Blend: 90% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
A balanced, medium-bodied red, with ground black pepper, anise and clove serving as a spice thread that winds through bitter cherry and black raspberry fruit, medicinal herbs and vanilla. Reveals lightly chewy tannins and orange peel acidity. Tempranillo and Graciano. Drink now through 2028.
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.