Winemaker Notes
Blend: 95% Tempranillo, 5% Graciano
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Graceful toasty and liquorice nose with a taut and supple texture. Dried herbs and green olives dominate, with plenty of oak evident. Rich and full-bodied with a long finish. Blend: 95% Tempranillo, 5% Graciano.
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Wine Enthusiast
Aromas of raspberry, strawberry and caramel set the stage for blackberry, black-cherry, cocoa-powder, lavender and clove flavors set into rigid tannins. As tannins back off a bit, a note of eucalyptus joins the action alongside cranberry-laced acidity that endures on the tongue and gums.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2015 Eguren Ugarte Reserva is delicious and flavorful. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers aromas and flavors of black fruits, some chalkiness, preserved plum pits, chalky notes, and oak. Pair it with grilled lamb chops. (Tasted: December 6, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
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.