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Neal Martin - Wine Advocate #202 - Aug 2012
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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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An exceptional wine, produced only in the best years, the Granja Gran Reserva adds Moscatel to the the Reserva’s blend, all farmed on the poor limestone terraces on the cusp of Riojas Alta and Alavesa. 27 months of wood ageing is evidenced in the power and concentration here but it in no way underlines innate polish, finesse and attention to detail.
Simon Field MW - Wine Buyer
Telmo Rodríguez is one of the greatest of Spanish winemakers. It seems fitting that I first met him when taken to lunch at his astonishingly beautiful Bodega at Remelliri by María José López de Heredia, another of the Spanish greats. In a fashion not dissimilar to Alavaro Palacios, Telmo travelled and learnt for many years before returning home to Rioja, where he has improved yet further the quality of a wine that was already outstanding. In addition he supervises négociant projects throughout Spain. But for him, Rioja is home.
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