Winemaker Notes
This wine has a bright ruby color with intense aromas, expressive and well-integrated. Hints of licorice in a ripe red fruit bouquet. Fine nuances of the aging; spices, vanilla, and Mediterranean herbs. It is round, elegant, velvety and elegant. It has a deep and pleasant finish.
Ideal for roasted and grilled meats, especially pork, lamb, veal and beef. Meat stews as well as fish, cured cheeses and chocolate desserts.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Dark garnet in the glass, this wine offers aromas of cassis, dried Mediterranean herbs and saddle leather. The nice mix of savory and fruity flavors includes black-olive paste, thyme, roasted fennel bulb, pomegranate and raspberry. Downy tannins hang on into the enduring finish.
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James Suckling
Aromas of black cherries and blackberries with hints of leather, spices and wet earth. Medium-to full-bodied. Round and creamy with plush tannins and luscious fruit on the palate. Flavorful finish. Drink or hold.
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.