Bodegas Valdemar Conde de Valdemar Gran Reserva 2005
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Ripe berry and prune aromas come with spice and oaky notes. The palate is fresh and on the money, with mature but not tired flavors of tobacco, vanilla, cedar, plum and raspberry. For fans of fine Rioja, this will seem familiar and likable; it's smooth, oaky, elegant and vital.
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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.