COMPOSITION: 100% Tempranillo

TASTING NOTES:
“Rich, plush, alluring. This big red delivers plenty of ripe fruit framed by lavish oak and full tannins, but remains balanced and expressive. The flavors range from plum and black currant to coffee and toast, with notes of mineral and tobacco. Powerful yet fresh. Drink now through 2012. 300 cases imported. 92 points.”
- The Wine Spectator

TANZER: “Saturated medium ruby. Aromas of high-toned blackberry and smoky oak. Superconcentrated, sweet and high-toned. The wine shows terrific length for the vintage. 90 points.”
-Stephen Tanzer  (more info)

COMPOSITION: 100% Tempranillo

TASTING NOTES:
“Rich, plush, alluring. This big red delivers plenty of ripe fruit framed by lavish oak and full tannins, but remains balanced and expressive. The flavors range from plum and black currant to coffee and toast, with notes of mineral and tobacco. Powerful yet fresh. Drink now through 2012. 300 cases imported. 92 points.”
- The Wine Spectator

TANZER: “Saturated medium ruby. Aromas of high-toned blackberry and smoky oak. Superconcentrated, sweet and high-toned. The wine shows terrific length for the vintage. 90 points.”
-Stephen Tanzer

ABOUT THE PRODUCER:
The grapes for this wine come from the vineyard El Puntido, 62 acres in Rioja Alavesa. The vineyard was planted in 1975 with high density plantings on trellis and is organically fertilized every 2 years.

Carefully hand-harvested in boxes, from the last week of October 2002, only perfectly healthy, ripe grapes were chosen. Destemmed by hand with a rigorous inspection of every grape.

Fermented in French oak barrels. Malolactic fermentation in new French Bordelaise oak barrels.

Aged 18 months in new French Bordelaise oak barrels.
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