This young Rioja is surprisingly very approachable.
Dark purple in color with a purple rim.
Full bodied, smooth and elegant, with medium acidity.
Dry and fruit forward with nice complexity.
Showing black currants, plums, tobacco, licorice, light oak, spices, chocolates, coffee and peppercorn.
Medium minus on the finish with fine grained tannins and tangy raspberries.
Would be nice to revisit it in 3 years.
Tangy and good by itself or with food.
14% alcohol by volume.
89 points. — 2 years ago
Mucho mejor de lo esperado, buen balance de fruta seca y madera, vainilla. — 6 months ago
Cooked up a fresh batch of marinara sauce and needed a nice wine go with it. Nice to have this beauty on hand. — 8 months ago
Probably a bit too much heat but overall a nice dinner wine — 5 months ago
Pepe g y nestor — a year ago
Smooth Verdejo at Zurich Hilton during an unplanned overnight layover in Switzerland — 2 years ago
ESF
had this years ago and i feel like they've made some great strides: Monastrell from Yecla can be flabby fruit bombs, but this is a legit wine, great old vine material, had some of the secondary aromas & flavors from southern France, some of that feral quality, some iodine, white pepper along with copious amount of black & red fruit. polished & poised, smooth thru nice finish — 3 days ago