Winemaker Notes
The three soils we work with represented in the grapes used to elaborate this Crianza. The alluvial, sandstone-clay and ferrous-clay soils.
Blend: 80% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacha
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Quietly fresh for a 2015 with dark plums and raspberries delivered in a succulent palate that has very approachable, supple tannins.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Crianza has a profile that mixes modern and more traditional characteristics. There is more fruit and less spice—the oak is used and the toast is limited, and the wine has more fruit, cherries and berries, which are a recurring note in the Rioja Alta zone. A blend of Tempranillo with 20% Garnacha, it has 13.1% alcohol and good freshness, mixing power, ripeness and concentration with elegance and balance. It's easy to drink. It's from a good and easy vintage when almost everybody made good wine. 90,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2017.
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.