Winemaker Notes
This wine is a perfect match for beef stews, shepherds pie, or slow roasted lamb shank.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Dense and focused, this muscular red delivers black currant, licorice, tar and gamy flavors that fight their way through a wall of tannins. Remains balanced, with mineral and floral notes emerging on the finish. Best from 2017 through 2027.
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Wine Enthusiast
Black in color, this Petit Verdot smells of iodine, black currant, road tar and leather. The palate is saturated, with a burst of acidity creating zest and balance. Oaky, powerful blackberry flavors shorten up on a muscular, tannic finish. Drink through 2021.
Cellar Selection
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James Suckling
A dense and powerful wine that verges on overdoing it but there is a depth and intensity to this. Full body, chewy tannins and a flavorful finish. Needs two to three years to soften.
Spanish red wine is known for being bold, heady, rustic and age-worthy, Spain is truly a one-of-a-kind wine-producing nation. A great majority of the country is hot, arid and drought-ridden, and since irrigation has only been recently introduced and (controversially) accepted, viticulture has sustained—and flourished—only through a great understanding of Spain’s particular conditions. Large spacing between vines allows each enough resources to survive and as a result, the country has the most acreage under vine compared to any other country, but is usually third in production.
Of the Spanish red wines, the most planted and respected grape variety is Tempranillo, the star of Spain’s Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions. Priorat specializes in bold red blends, Jumilla has gained global recognition for its single varietal Monastrell and Utiel-Requena has garnered recent attention for its reds made of Bobal.