Bodegas Altanza Gran Reserva 2015

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  • 92 James
    Suckling
  • 91 Decanter
  • 90 Robert
    Parker
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Varietal

Region

Producer

Vintage
2015

Size
750ML

ABV
13.5%

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Winemaker Notes

Bright cherry-red color. Great aromatic complexity due to its long ageing. On the nose you find aromas of spices and such reduction leading to a slight hint of leather, and smoked aromas. The wood also provides memories of cocoa, toasty and coffee. His entry into the mouth leaves a nice wine, charming, powerful with good acidity and well balanced. From soft sweet tannins it has a smooth entry, nice fresh with long aftertaste.

Ideal for small snacks and spiked elaborate haute cuisine. All kinds of meat, stews, meats, vegetables and cheese.

Professional Ratings

  • 93
    Dark ruby in the glass, this wine has a nose of dark plum and pomegranate. It feels well balanced across the palate, with mid-weight tannins, flavors of pomegranate, raspberry, milk chocolate, orange zest, toasted almond, and a bright finish.
  • 92
    Blueberries, fresh blackberries, orange peel, crushed stones and sweet spices follow through to a medium to full body that unleashes lots of succulent red-berry fruit with smoothly wound tannins. Bright acidity gives it a kick. Quite long and subtle.
  • 91
    Baskets of cherries and plums in the mouth with cinnamon and cumin notes on the palate. Hints of leather and spice which is enticing.
  • 90
    The 2015 Gran Reserva has notes of licorice, leather and spices like clove and black pepper, toasty and smoky. The palate is polished and sleek, the fruit fading and the tannins hanging in there.

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Bodegas Altanza, Spain
Oscar Martinez is the third generation of well respected family of winemakers in Rioja. Altanza has 120 Has planted with Tempranillo around Fuenmayor, in the center of Rioja Alta.

Tempranillo is the only varietal planted in the Estate. Yields are low, green pruning and careful selection with no more than 8-10 bunches left in every plant combine to produce an average yield of only 3 lbs per plant, well below the the 6500 kg/Ha limit in Rioja. All grapes are handpicked in small cases and quickly taken to the winery.

Only native yeasts are used. Malolactic is done in large Allier oak vats, partiallyin oak for the wines up to Crianza and completely for the Reservas and Gran Reservas. Aging takes place in new or semi-new French (85%), American (10%) and Russian (5%) oak casks. The large Allier vats are also used to store the wine prior to bottling. The wine is only slightly filtered before being bottled, except the Lealtanza 2001 that sees no filtration.

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Hailed as the star red variety in Spain’s most celebrated wine region, Tempranillo from Rioja, or simply labeled, “Rioja,” produces elegant wines with complex notes of red and black fruit, crushed rock, leather, toast and tobacco, whose best examples are fully capable of decades of improvement in the cellar.

Rioja wines are typically a blend of fruit from its three sub-regions: Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Oriental, although specific sub-region (zonas), village (municipios) and vineyard (viñedo singular) wines can now be labeled. Rioja Alta and Alavesa, at the highest elevations, are considered to be the source of the brightest, most elegant fruit, while grapes from the warmer and drier, Rioja Oriental, produce wines with deep color, great body and richness.

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