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Bodegas Ramon Bilbao Rioja Reserva 2001

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Bodegas Ramon Bilbao Rioja Reserva (2001)

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Winery:: Bodegas Ramón Bilbao
Varietal:: Tempranillo
Region:: Spain > Rioja
Type:: Red Wine
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Drink Dates:: Drink Now - 2015
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User Tags: fruit, resinous, bright, spirit, intense, red, trees, cedar, firm, floral

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The Rioja region of Spain produces one of the world's finest, and most long lived wines: Rioja. Rioja's renaissance, in the latter half of the 19th century, was a direct result of the phyloxera bug that decimated vineyards around the globe. While English merchants came to Rioja to replace their French imports, the wines here actually have much more in common with Chianti. Both wines are blend relying heavily on one grape, in this case Tempranillo. Like Chianti's Sangiovese, Tempranillo usually produces a relatively high acid wine of medium to medium-full body. Tempranillo tends to produce wines with a dusty, leathery edge to its raspberry and blackberry fruit tones. With additions of Graciano, Mazuela and Grancha, the wines of Rioja can take on additional layers of flavor and aroma, but the tradition of extended oak aging for Rioja's great wines contributes to an even more obvious imprint. While the Spaniards have traditionally been fans of the strong vanilla and coconut components that American oak barrels have contributed to Rioja, more and more producers have turned to French oak favoring its more subtle spice tones. Rioja continues to undergo extended aging in barrel with Reserva and Gran Reserva bottlings, representing a producer's highest achievement, spending a minimum of 3 of 5 years respectively in the producer's cellar.

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November 2007

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Product: Reserva 2001 Producer: Ramon Bilbao Country: Spain Region: Rioja Alta Grape Variety: 90% Riojan Tempranillo, 10% Mazuelo and Graciano Alcohol Strength: 12.5% by volume Ramon Bilbao?s Reserva 2001 has an intense, cherry-red color, with a

April 2009

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Wine & Spirits Top 100 of 2007! At the estates of La Recilla, Valdegaru, Ozaku and La Olivera, the soil, the sun and the rain create this exceptional wine, which assumes its final shape after blending. It is a wine with the know-how and flavour of a great Rioja Alta wine. Intense cherry-red with a bright rim. Predominating nose of cocoa, coffee and cigar box aromas blending into notes of stewed fruit. Well-integrated, characterful tannins in the mouth that slowly lead to hints of cedar and ripe red fruit. The finish brings back toasty notes from the wood, such as cedar, enhanced by a light, pleasant read more...