Concentrated aromas of ripe black fruit, licorice, violets and vanilla on top of spices and toasted bread. Balanced in the mouth, there is a powerful backtaste and a long pleasurable finish to this elegant wine. It will open up and improve for hours in the glass. Great potential to age in the bottle.
Very good with roast meat, grills, duck in orange sauce, pork in mustard, mature and semi-mature cheese, venison in red wine, grilled wild mushrooms, casseroles, Iberian ham and so on.
A wine made from Tempranillo grapes from selected vineyards in Gimileo, at the heart of La Rioja.
Temperature-controlled fermentation takes place with long periods of maceration and gentle pumping-over to produce wine with considerable structure, concentration and colour, making it highly suitable for ageing.
This lasts for 18 months in American oak barrels with the periodic racking carried out traditionally using gravity to move wine from one barrel to another.
The ageing process continues in the bottle, where the wine acquires the further refining needed before it can be sold. The nose and flavor of this Reserva will improve in the following years.