Winemaker Notes
Blend: 90% Tempranillo, 5% Garnacha, 5% Graciano
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2012 Lindes de Remelluri Viñedos de San Vicente de la Sonsierra is a blend of Tempranillo, Garnacha and Graciano. The grapes are purchased from growers from the neighboring village of San Vicente de la Sonsierra, one of the most important in Rioja in vineyard extension, diversity and quality. 2012 was warmer and drier than the average, and the grapes were ripe and very healthy. Most of the wines are produced and aged in a very similar way; they are fermented in small stainless steel and oak vats with natural yeasts, and matured in oak barrels for one year. This is always more approachable than the wine from Labastida, with forward fruit and a gentle palate, easy to drink. 2012 produced round and juicy wines, intense.
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.