Winemaker Notes
Biga is a cherry-colored wine of medium intensity, a modern Crianza, with the predominance of fruit to which noble wood contributes shades of complexity. You find delicate aromas in the nose: fresh and clean fruit, with tones of leather, spices and fine wood. In the mouth it is light, pleasant, emphasizing a hint of freshness.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Deep violet-red to the eye, this wine has a nose of blackberry pie, slightly burnt caramel and herbs de Provence. Spicy notes of mint and licorice back black cherry, black currant, mocha, violet and thyme flavors. Vivid acidity keeps muscular tannins from over running the palate.
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.