Winemaker Notes
This wine is a bright, ruby red color. The aromas are clean and mature, and combine a ripe red fruit bouquet with hints of liquorice and nuances from the oak aging: vanilla and spices. It is round, velvety, elegant and very well integrated. The mouth is balanced and full, with a rounded structure. It has a persistent and pleasant finish.
Ideal to serve with all types of meat dishes, stews and matured cheese.
Professional Ratings
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Tasting Panel
Bright and smooth with crisp notes of black raspberry; tangy and fresh with a persistent fnish.
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.