Winemaker Notes
This is a cherry-colored wine with bluish notes on the meniscus. The aromatic intensity that gives us a wide range of aromas and we can find the fruits from the forest, highlighting blueberries and gooseberries, licorice and aromas from the aging in French oak barrels, such as clove, smoked or roasted flavors, toffees, etc. When we taste it we discover an endless number of sensations. Its entrance is smooth with a step marked by a tannin which is perfectly balanced with the unctuousness of the wine. The aftertaste leaves a little hint of acidity which gives freshness and length, and some fruity flavors mixed with sweet spices in the end. In glass it evolves by expanding its aromatic variety. That is why it pairs with strong flavors as red meat and game dishes or even with desserts.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Lots of dark berry and wet earth character with a distinctly mushroom and fresh flowers undertone to the wine. Full body, layered and rich with rich and layered tannins and a long and flavorful finish. Needs Four or five years to come together. Drink in 2022.
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Wine Enthusiast
This wine's black fruit aromas are smoky with chocolaty oak and animal notes. On the palate, severe, citrusy acidity narrows down its savory plum, wood and lemon flavors. With so much youthful oak and acidity, it's wiry and angular now. Drink from 2020.
Cvne, is situated in Rioja in the traditional neighborhood of the station, where the oldest wineries of Rioja Alta established themselves, for the main reason of transporting their goods to the port of Bilbao.
In 1879, two brothers decided to set up a business in the recently flourishing trade of the wine business. C.V.N.E., Compañía Vinicola del Norte de España (The Northern Spanish Wine Company) or la Cuné, as it is commonly known in Haro, was created. This cellar still reflects the origins of the company and is kept in the traditional neighborhood of the Haro station.
The Cune winery in Haro, is made up of a group of buildings, mostly from the 19th century and arranged around a courtyard surrounded by pavilions for the purpose of wine production, aging, and bottling.
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.