Winemaker Notes
This wine sports flavors and aromas of dark cherry, coffee and cocoa. It has a liqueur-like streak on the palate and finishes long and velvety. It remains, even after the barrel and bottle aging required of a Reserva, quite full and young tasting. Pull the cork on this one when you have a roast or stew going.
This wine pairs excellent alongside rice with meat, stews, Iberian ham, roasted lamb, roasted red meats, mature cheese and game.
Blend: 95% Tempranillo, 5% Graciano
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Plum and raspberry aromas come with back notes of black olive and maduro tobacco. Strong acidity pushes a palate with grip and flavors of plum, currant and oak. Rubbing tannins make a long finish grabby. Drink through 2024.
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.