Winemaker Notes
Pair with Vegetables and beans casseroles, hen soup. For meats it goes better with white ones, turkey, sock lamb and pork. It perfectly matches with rice with rabbit and stewed poularde.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Cantos de Valpiedra is Tempranillo selected from the younger vines on stony soils in the property vineyards. The idea here is to get a wine with moderate alcohol and good acidity like the wines from yesteryear. It fermented in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and matured in oak barrels for 12 months. It has notes of licorice and black fruit and is clean and balanced, with fine-grained tannins and an easy-to-understand profile.
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.