Winemaker Notes
The wine shows serious structure with beautiful, deep and intense fruit and spiciness.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Spectator
Sleek and firm, this red delivers a firm core of cherry and berry flavors, with accents of smoke, cocoa, mineral and herb. More dense than broad, with lively underlying acidity. Drink now through 2018. 5,000 cases made.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2007 Gago spent 14 months in a combination of large oak and barriques. It fills the mouth with savory black fruits, exotic spices, and mineral notes. Layered, plush, and nicely balanced, it can be approached now but will continue to blossom for several more years.
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.