Winemaker Notes
Winemaking:
This wine was hand picked in late October and produced from a selection of low yielding, old vineyards 70+ years old, located in San Vicente de la Sonsierra. It was aged for 30 months in French and American oak barrels and racked quarterly. It was then bottle aged for at least three years prior to release.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
"Aromas of spiced plum, cherry, mocha and vanilla are common for Rioja Gran Reserva. A choppy but dense mouthfeel lacks elegance but gets the job done. Roasted plum flavors are earthy and hint at bacon, while this thickens up on a jammy finish. Drink through 2025."
Hacienda López de Haro is the Rioja winery of the Vintae Wine Company and its flagship is the collection of wines with which they pay homage to the authentic essence of their land, Rioja. The place chosen to bring this project to life and to settle the winery could be none other than San Vicente de la Sonsierra, the heart of La Rioja Alta and the area where the best old Tempranillo vineyards are located, thanks to its special climatic characteristics, its orography and its soils.
López de Haro wines are elegant, complex and aromatic and have become the new classics of Rioja. At Hacienda López de Haro, the entire production process is taken care of the tradition. The technical advances and the sustainability are at the service of the artisan elaboration, always with the maximum respect for the Rioja heritage.
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.