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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2010 Prado Enea, Gran Reserva, Bodegas Muga, Rioja, Spain
Red
2010
Ready - youthful
Medium Bodied
Dry
14.0% Alcohol
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£141.50 – bottle (75cl)
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2021 El Carretil, Artadi, Rioja, Spain
Red
2021
Not ready
Full Bodied
Dry
14.5% Alcohol
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£187.00 – magnum (150cl)
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2001 Gran Reserva 904, La Rioja Alta, Rioja, Spain
Red
2001
Ready - at best
Full Bodied
Dry
12.5% Alcohol
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£300.00 – bottle (75cl)
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1981 Viña Tondonia Tinto, Gran Reserva, Bodegas R. López de Heredia, Rioja, Spain
Red
1981
Ready - mature
Medium Bodied
Dry
12.0% Alcohol
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£540.90 – magnum (150cl)
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2001 Calvario, Finca Allende, Rioja, Spain
Red
2001
Ready - at best
Full Bodied
Dry
13.0% Alcohol
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£615.00 – bottle (75cl)
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2003 Único, Vega Sicilia, Ribera del Duero, Spain
Red
2003
Ready - at best
Full Bodied
Dry
14.0% Alcohol
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£922.00 – bottle (75cl)
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2018 Pingus, Ribera del Duero, Spain
Red
2018
Not ready
Full Bodied
Dry
14.5% Alcohol
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£930.00 – bottle (75cl)
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1970 Viña Tondonia Tinto, Gran Reserva, Bodegas R. López de Heredia, Rioja, Spain
Red
1970
Ready - mature
Medium Bodied
Dry
12.0% Alcohol
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£1,000.00 – bottle (75cl)
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1968 Viña Tondonia Tinto, Gran Reserva, Bodegas R. López de Heredia, Rioja, Spain
Red
1968
Ready - mature
Medium Bodied
Dry
12.0% Alcohol
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£1,100.00 – bottle (75cl)
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1964 Viña Tondonia Tinto, Gran Reserva, Bodegas R. López de Heredia, Rioja, Spain
Red
1964
Ready - mature
Medium Bodied
Dry
12.5% Alcohol
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