Bodegas Bilbainas Vina Pomal Reserva 2015
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Deep picota cherry red with an intense ruby rim. An intense and elegant nose. Floral notes and red fruit which blend with sweet spices (Vanilla) and roasted coffee. A long lingering finish with the balance of great Riojas.
This wine makes a perfect pairing with rice dishes, vegetables, venison and red meats.
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A Rioja with pretty, ripe fruit and hints of walnut and chocolate. Refined, lightly chewy tannins and a flavorful finish. Firm and structured. Delicious now. Why wait?
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Deep ruby in the glass, this wine offers aromas of cassis, dark plum and caramel. It is full in the mouth, with flavors of black cherry, raspberry, bittersweet cacao, tobacco leaf and baking spices. Deep-set tannins taper down to a drawn-out finish.
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An oak-forward Rioja when first poured, this develops a firm essence of red cherry fruit as it opens with air. The rich oak tannins need meat to assuage them, but the bright fruit keeps it clean and easy.
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Bodegas Bilbainas, one of the ten oldest wineries in Rioja, was founded in 1901 in Haro's iconic Train Station District (Rioja Alta). Its origins go back to 1859, when French producers established in Rioja to produce and export red wine to France. Four decades later, Santiago Ugarte, a businessman from Bilbao, would take up the reins.
Bodegas Bilbainas defines itself as a classically styled winery, which was pioneer 100 years ago in understanding winemaking and viticulture in a very contemporary way, giving primer importance to the vineyards, the terroir and the grapes. Specialized in making vintage wines, Bodegas Bilbainas produces some of the most famed and emblematic wines from Rioja, as La Vicalanda or its flagship brand, Vina Pomal.
Nevertheless, Bilbainas has also strong historical links with the production of sparkling wines since they started to export it to France during World War I. Moreover, they have never abandoned their pioneer spirit, focusing their innovation efforts in surprising estate wines, which aim to find the true expression of varieties as Tempranillo, White Tempranillo, White Maturana, Graciano or Grenache.
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.