C.v.n.e. Compania Vinicola Norte de Espana Rioja Pagos de Viña Real 2004

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Compania Vinicola Norte de Espana

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Spain > Rioja

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Red Wine

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Drink Now - 2023

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User Tags:  plum, dry tannins, prune, raspberries, stone fruits, nice, intense, nose, complex, caramel 

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What to Expect

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.

Editorial Reviews

Gregory-
Dal Piaz

Hand of Snooth Voice of Snooth

7,117

The nose is intense and layered with buttered herbs, leather, black raspberry and vanilla tones. in the mouth this is smooth and polished with mouthfilling volume of mulberry, raspberry and plum fruits yet nice acidic cut to prevent this from becoming overwhelming. It's very youthful and a bit monolithic at this stage but with all the pieces to come together as a nice modern powerful Rioja with a few years in the cellar. 92pts

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