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
This muscular red balances concentration with freshness. Bright cherry and red plum flavors mingle with espresso, loamy earth and black olive notes. Chewy tannins give way to lively acidity and a floral, spicy finish. Drink now through 2023.
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Wine Enthusiast
Baked black plum and cassis aromas are dark and rich on the nose. The palate is bold in baked blackberry and plum flavors, with a chocolate and toast note that lingers through the finish. Drink through 2025.
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.