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
Even the 2020 Señorío de P. Peciña Crianza shows tertiary notes of forest floor, dry leaves, iodine and brick dust, with some notes of fountain pen ink and dark spices. It has a slightly astringent palate, with dusty tannins. It fermented in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and moderate extraction and matured in used American oak barrels for 24 months, during which time it was racked every six months. I found a little more rusticity here this year. It comes in at 14.42% alcohol, with a pH of 3.52 and 6.05 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.