Marques de la Concordia Lagunilla Crianza 2018
Winemaker Notes
Critical Acclaim
All VintagesThis crianza feels flush while displaying agility. Earthy berry and cherry aromas are spicy and show a note of tobacco. Flavors of dark plum and berry fruits are backed by a hint of café mocha. The wine keeps its form across a dry and steady finish.
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Producing wine since 1870, their grapes come from the oldest (1929) and highest quality vineyards in Rioja Alta, with their wines aged in French oak.
Rioja Alta extends through the territories between Haro and Logroño, south of the river, Ebro. It is a humid and mountainous zone due to its higher elevation above sea level, with a totally Atlantic climate. Most of its soils are of alluvial earth, and limestone-clay-ferrous.
This altitude slows down the maturity of the grape, a grape that has more acidity, more freshness, less alcoholic strength, a low average color intensity, and a great potential for aging.
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.