Poker de Tempranillos Rioja 2010
-
Parker
Robert
Product Details
Your Rating
Somm Note
Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
-
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2010 Poker de Tempranillo is so called because it is a blend of four Tempranillo clones and sees 12 months in new American and French oak. The bouquet is very well-defined, with broody dark berries, iodine, underbrush and a touch of cedar that is very entrancing. The palate is well-balanced with fine, fleshy tannins and the wine is well-balanced, refined and focused with a long sensual finish. This is a superb wine (even if I am not so keen on the label!) Drink now-2017.
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.