Winemaker Notes
Expressing the vintage accordingly, Fincas displays powerful fruit mingled with leather and loamy earth. Dark cherry in immediate character, the long finish displays licorice and crushed violets.
Blend: 88% Tempranillo, 7% Graciano, 3% Garnacha, 2% Viura
Professional Ratings
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Vinous
The 2018 Reserva Fincas de Ganuza is a selection of younger vines and declassified lots from Remírez de Ganuza. This blends Tempranillo, Graciano and Garnacha with white grape skins. Aged for up to 22 months in 30% new oak, the vigorous aromatic profile includes wild herbs and cherry. Silky, lean and finessed, with delicate camphor flavors and a whisper of lavender, the palate is fine-grained and slightly grippy. This offers nuance, fluidity, freshness and quiet depth—one of the vintage’s standouts.
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.