Winemaker Notes
Attractive color with luminous highlights. Soft spice and refined oak on the nose with a depth of jammy red berry fruits. Luscious and intense on tasting with pleasant tannins that mingle with fresh and mature fruit. Finishes with delicious, long-lasting flavors.
Blend: 85% Tempranillo, 10% Garnacha tinta, and 5% Graciano.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A fruity and delicious red with blackberry and cherry character. Medium body. Firm tannins.
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Wine Enthusiast
Gritty, earthy berry aromas are not exuberant but do the job of getting you primed to drink this solid crianza from an excellent vintage in Rioja. An edgy palate is full and features rubbing tannins, while roasted berry and plum flavors finish in down the middle fashion.
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.