Winemaker Notes
The Lindes de Remelluri, meaning “Borders of Remelluri”, crafts a vision of terroirs by focusing on the distinct styles of wines from Labastida and San Vincente. This selection is sourced form 21 vineyards of 8 growers around the town of Labastida. The cooler, rockier and higher elevation sites here produce a wine that is lower in alcohol but higher in acidity and tannins than that of San Vicente.
Blend: 90% Tempranillo, 5% Garnacha and 5% Graciano.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Bramble berries, rich black cherries with a very fluid and elemental feel. Then, on the palate, red cherries and raspberries, discreet spices, chalky, dense and fresh stony tannins and a seamless, long and succulent finish. Taut, elegant Rioja. Try from 2021.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2014 Lindes de Remelluri Viñedos de Labastida was cropped from a challenging year in Rioja that saw a late harvest complicated by rain so that they had to do a severe sorting of the grapes. It's mostly Tempranillo with some Garnacha. Of the two vintages of Labastida, this 2014 feels more harmonious than the 2015. It has a medium-bodied palate with very fine tannins and a mineral/stony sensation that is a texture rather than a flavor. 60,499 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2016. Rating: 93+
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.