Winemaker Notes
Intense ruby color, with ripe blackberry and blueberry aromas and beautifully balanced smokey cedar oak notes. These red fruit notes transpire onto a silky smooth, mouthwateringly juicy, herbal rounded palate leaving a persistent ending taste.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Aromas of ripe dark fruit, dried herbs, sweet spices and wet earth. Medium-to full-bodied with firm, dry tannins and a chocolatey texture. Ripe and concentrated with delicious black fruit and a long, warming finish. Drink or hold.
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Wine Enthusiast
Aromas of dark plums, Mission fig and crumbled hillside herbs pave the way for black cherry, pomegranate, cocoa powder, dried thyme and violet flavors. Satiny tannins coat the mouth and wind down to a soft finish.
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.