Description: This Campo Viejo Rioja Tempranillo 2010 pours a deep cherry colour, light and vibrant as you would expect from Tempronillo, full of the aroma of ripe red fruits and a subtle background of vanilla and sweet spices. In the mouth the taste is fresh, smooth and soft, with flavours of redcurrants, vanilla, darker spices, […]
Faustino VII Rioja Tempranillo 2010
Description: Pours a lively red, shading to ochre. Aroma has hints of vanilla and ripe red berry fruit. To the taste it is well-balanced, velvety, elegant in its structure. It has a full fruity flavour that simply cries out to be expanded in size alongside a suitable pairing of food. Although smooth, it is probably […]
Baron De Ley Rioja Rosado 2010
Description: This is a very light rose Rioja, often new to many people who associate Rioja with fruity red bodied easy drinking wines. This Rioja is made through the traditional Sangrado System, with the musts fermented at 18°C, to develop a bright rose pink wine with fruity and expressive aromas. On pouring the wine develops […]
Viña Decana Crianza Utiel Requeña 2009
Description: This is a light fruity red colour to pour, with the aroma of vanilla and cherries. It is medium bodied, with bright and fruity initial flavours, that move onto more toasty wood flavours. Soft tannins and a long lingering dry taste at the finish make this a very good drinking wine; on its own […]
Castillo San Lorenzo Rioja Reserva 2006
Region: Spain, Castilla region Grapes: Tempranillo, Mazuelo, Graciano Description: This wine is richly flavoured and spicy, with the classic Rioja ripe plum and dried fruit character, with the hint of cinammon and vanilla. Each bottle is numbered, as you may expect for a Reserva, having been aged in American and French oak. Price: £9.99 ABV: […]
Baron Amarilla Rioja Reserva 2006
Description: This Rioja comes in a wire caged bottle, numbered label and looks every part more expensive than it is. The wine has a very deep, dark blood red colour, and a strong aroma of black fruits. This can be expected from the ‘reserva’ status of the Rioja which means it has had at least […]