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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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This Crianza, child of the superb 2010 vintage, is made from Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) and has been aged for 12 months in new and one-year-old medium-toast French barrels. With an intense red colour and aromas of ripe red berry fruits, spices and vanilla, this full bodied wine is ready to drink but will age well for a further three to five years. Silk cedes to velvet, but pleasure ever gives in to over-indulgence.
Simon Field MW - Wine Buyer
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