Winemaker Notes
Finca Nueva Crianza is a bright red cherry in color with pronounced aromas of ripe red fruit and cassis, this wine is clean, complex and elegant. Fresh and well-balanced with vibrant acidity, this Tempranillo contains well-integrated tannins and enjoyable finish.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The gourmand red 2016 Crianza has notes of candied fruit and sweet spices, an updated classical profile and a tender palate with juicy fruit and fine tannins. This is approachable, tasty and easy to drink with its nice freshness and a dry finish. It's polished and very drinkable with good ripeness. It matured in a mix of 50/50 American and French barrels for one year.
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.