Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Jeb Dunnuck
Made with the same techniques as the Crianza, the 2017 Senorio De P. Pecina Reserva is kept three years in used American oak barrel and three in bottle, the main difference being the vineyard sourcing though the plots is not always the same for the Reserva (nor is the wine made every year). This vintage suffered a late frost where many producers lost half their production, and the resulting yields were low. But where it worked, it worked. This delivers a creamy texture of densely concentrated red fruit that’s full-bodied and showing its oak. Age it a long time, 25-30 years.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The classical 2017 Señorío de P. Peciña Reserva is developed and polished with evolved aromas and resolved tannins, cropped from a challenging year. It matured in used American oak barrels for 36 months. It has ripeness and comes in at 14.64% alcohol, with a pH of 3.56 and 6.10 grams of acidity.
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.