Bodegas Altanza Club 2014
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James
Suckling
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Bright cherry color. In the nose, the raspberry, blackberry, and liquorice aromas are perfectly assembled with the toasty and balsamic notes from the new oak. As time goes by, more complex aromas start to show up like tobacco, cedar, leather and spices as pepper and clove. Powerful bouquet. It is lively, full-bodied, with a nice acidity and great structure. Pleasant aftertaste, excellent delight.
Very suitable for dishes with intense flavors such as stews, game meat, lamb, duck and barbecued red meat, in general. Try it with grilled marinated duck breast with honey.
Vegan-Friendly
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Vinous
Deep vivid ruby. Expressive aromas of spice-accented red and blue fruits, mocha and candied flowers, along with vanilla and pipe tobacco nuances. Juicy and appealingly sweet, offering fleshy black raspberry, cherry-vanilla and mocha flavors and a smoky flourish that emerges as the wine opens up. Finishes sappy and long, with smooth, slow-building tannins that fold into the wine's sweet fruit. All new French oak.
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James Suckling
A fragrant nose of elderberries, plums, dried flowers, dill and spices. It’s medium-bodied with powdery tannins. Fruity and fresh with a textured, supple finish. Vegan. Drink or hold.
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James
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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.
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.