Winemaker Notes
La Antigua Clasico Crianza is a wine of place. It is 100% from Sierra de la Demanda, a place of longevity, precision and minerality.
Blend: 70% Tempranillo, 20% Graciano and 10% Garnacha.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2012 La Antigua Clásico Crianza is a beautiful red wine basking with persistent ripe fruit. TASTING NOTES: This wine shines with excellent aromas and flavors of black fruit, earth accents, and a touch of oak. Pair it with a rotisserie leg of lamb. (Tasted: July 6, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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James Suckling
I like the traditional flavors of dried fruits, walnut and balsamic. Full to medium body, dense fruit and a flavorful finish. Decadent at the end.
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.