2010 Berry Bros. & Rudd Rioja by Bodegas Amézola de la Mora

2010 Berry Bros. & Rudd Rioja by Bodegas Amézola de la Mora

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2010 Berry Bros. & Rudd Rioja by Bodegas Amézola de la Mora

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Recommended by Jane McQuitty - 50 Best reds for the winter
Aged for more than a year in French and American oak barrels, this textbook Rioja bursts with delicious light, lush leafy, tobacco and bitong-studded fruit
Jane McQuitty - The Times -Nov 2015

Sisters Maria and Cristina Amézola, with a little help from the celebrated Bordeaux oenologist, Georges Pauli, have fashioned us a textbook Rioja from the superb 2010 vintage. Aged for 16 months in French and American Oak, with Mazuelo and Graciano added to the dominant Tempranillo, this really is an exceptional wine. Wild strawberries and black cherry are framed by gently spicy tannins and a subtle yet persistent finish.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer

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Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

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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