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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 2005 Reserva Privada is a vineyard selection of older vines consisting of 60% Tempranillo, 10% Mazuelo, 19% Garnacha, and 20% other varietals aged for 23 months in new Russian oak. A fine deep episcopal colour with notes of black fruits , coffee and spice evidenced, a rich and viscous texture, with hints of earth and crème de cassis to the fore and a powerful finish.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
In the heart of the Ebro valley in Rioja, just outside the famous wine town of Logrono are located three famous wine Bodegas, known as the Three Marquis; the other two eponymous dignitaries being Murietta and Riscal. Marqués de Vargas is a single, large vineyard, covering over 65 hectares, all of which are extremely well located and the property produces benchmark Riojas.
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