Winemaker Notes
Cherry-red color and slightly orange rim. Intense aroma of ripe fruit, with hints of vanilla and toasted wood, with jam coming through underneath. Tasty, smooth, pleasant, spicy, very well-balanced and rounded.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The textbook traditional red 2019 Señorío de P. Peciña Crianza was produced with their classical blend of Tempranillo with small percentages of Garnacha and Graciano. It fermented in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and matured in used American oak barrels following the most orthodox tradition, for two years, a lot longer than required to obtain the category. It has spicy notes, a hint of cigar box and forest floor and is a powerful and ripe year, when the wine achieved 14.36% alcohol and good freshness and acidity. It has a medium to full-bodied palate with a chalky mouthfeel, fine tannins and a slightly dusty and rustic touch that would welcome food.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Leather, rose petal, and balsamic highlights define the 2019 Senorio De P. Pecina Crianza, which is a majority of Tempranillo with small additions of Garnacha and Graciano. Chewy tannins contribute tension to the otherwise rounded mouthfeel, finding an enduring elegance and medium-bodied feel. After malolactic fermentation, the wine was put in used American oak barrels for two years and another two in bottle, with no fining/filtering. This age-worthy wine should continue to shine through 2039.
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.