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Tempranillo/Tinto Fino
A high quality red wine grape that is grown all over Spain except in the hot South - it is known as Tinto Fino in Ribera del Duero, Cencibel in La Mancha and Valdepenas and Ull de Llebre in Catalonia. Its spiritual home is in Rioja and Navarra where it constitutes around 70% of most red blends.
Tempranillo-based wines tend to have a spicy, herbal, tobacco-like character accompanied by ripe strawberry and red cherry fruits. It produces fresh, vibrantly fruit driven "jovenes" meant for drinking young. However Tempranillo really comes into its own when oak aged, as with the top Riojas where its flavours seem to harmonise perfectly with both French and American oak, producing rich, powerful and concentrated wines which can be extraordinarily long-lived.
In Ribera del Duero it generally sees less oak - the exception being Vega Sicilia where it is blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot and then aged for an astonishing 7 years in oak and is unquestionably one of the world`s greatest wines.
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The 2009 Inigo Amezola is 100% Tempranillo. It has a super-ripe, almost Rancio-like bouquet with notes of kirsch and eau-de-vie. The palate has supple entry and is beautifully balanced with notes of allspice and a touch of sweet raisin. This is very composed and supremely well-crafted. Drink now-2018+.
Bodegas Amezola de la Mora is located in Torremontalbo in Rioja Alta. It was in 1986 that the late Inigo and Javier Amezola de la Mora decided to resurrect the winery that had been established by their great-grandfather and subsequently succumbed to the scourge of phylloxera. The baton has since been passed to their daughters, Cristina and Maria, and they oversee a small range of succinctly crafted Rioja that blend both modernism and tradition. All their fruit is handpicked from their own 65 hectares of vine, and their wines are aged in both American and French oak.
92/100 Neal Martin Wine Advocate #202 Aug 2012
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