Winemaker Notes
Remelluri Lindes de Remelluri de San Vicente is velvety-textured with very fine tannins. It has restrained ripeness, integrated alcohol, charming balance, and an open and complex expression on the nose.
Blend: 95% Tempranillo, 5% Garnacha
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Very tangy and bright nose with savory grilled herbs, balsamic cherries, blackberries, violets, crushed stones and licorice. Beautifully poised with a medium to full body, delivering a dry and composed feel to the palate. Long, but subtle and elegant. Lovely now, but can hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Lindes de Remelluri Viñedos de San Vicente de la Srra. is mostly Tempranillo, with some Garnacha, Graciano and other local grapes from external suppliers from the village of San Vicente de la Sonsierra, from 38 plots that total 15.38 hectares of vineyards worked by 14 different grape growers. It fermented in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and matured in oak barrels of different sizes for 13 months. It feels riper and more candied than the one from Labastida, round and juicy, with ripe flavors and a dry finish.
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.