Winemaker Notes
This wine's noble and healthy tannins will complement the best meat and game dishes.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
An opening salvo of coffee, tobacco and pure berry fruit give this Cabernet a fine lift-off. The palate exhibits freshness and full-bodied power, while the flavors run toward deep black fruits, tobacco, herbs, vanilla and cocoa. Long and rich as well on the finish. Best to set this aside for at least four years before revisiting, but drinkable now with decanting.
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Wine Spectator
A well-structured red, this features lightly chewy tannins that frame flavors of damson plum preserves, ground coffee, fig paste and bittersweet cocoa. This is dark and brooding, with a smoky mineral sublayer as well as hints of dried herb and kirsch on the finish. Drink now through 2020.
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.