Remelluri Lindes de Remelluri Labastida 2014
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The Lindes de Remelluri, meaning “Borders of Remelluri”, crafts a vision of terroirs by focusing on the distinct styles of wines from Labastida and San Vincente. This selection is sourced form 21 vineyards of 8 growers around the town of Labastida. The cooler, rockier and higher elevation sites here produce a wine that is lower in alcohol but higher in acidity and tannins than that of San Vicente.
Blend: 90% Tempranillo, 5% Garnacha and 5% Graciano.
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James Suckling
Bramble berries, rich black cherries with a very fluid and elemental feel. Then, on the palate, red cherries and raspberries, discreet spices, chalky, dense and fresh stony tannins and a seamless, long and succulent finish. Taut, elegant Rioja. Try from 2021.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2014 Lindes de Remelluri Viñedos de Labastida was cropped from a challenging year in Rioja that saw a late harvest complicated by rain so that they had to do a severe sorting of the grapes. It's mostly Tempranillo with some Garnacha. Of the two vintages of Labastida, this 2014 feels more harmonious than the 2015. It has a medium-bodied palate with very fine tannins and a mineral/stony sensation that is a texture rather than a flavor. 60,499 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2016. Rating: 93+
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Remelluri is one of the most timeless and iconic landscapes of the wine world, as well as one of the most enchanting vineyards in Spain. While firmly anchored in its historical past, Remelluri illuminates the path forward for not only the future of Rioja but also world-class, terroir-based fine wines produced in Spain. It is about rediscovering the essence of Rioja, and the story’s evolution is genuinely cinematic in scope. At Remelluri, the future lies in the past.
The estate’s origins date back to the tenth century when Count Erramel, a Basque warrior and aristocrat from Álava, founded a small village on the site (uri in Basque); hence the name Erramel Uri evolved to Remelluri. The first wines were made here in the fourteenth century. The modern winery was established in 1967 when Jaime Rodríguez Salís purchased the vineyards at the heart of the former estate and began to make wine from the ancient, abandoned site. Remelluri became the first single-vineyard Rioja of the modern era with its release of the 1971 vintage, standing out from a conservative wine culture based on house style and blends of purchased wines from throughout Rioja. Remelluri was founded on individuality and the concepts of terroir and specificity, always distinct from the industrial machine of greater Rioja.
Remelluri’s vineyards are located along the slopes of the Sierra de Toloño mountains, just above the village of Labastida in Rioja Alavesa. The vineyards here are at the highest elevation in the Rioja region with vines planted between 500 and 950 meters, south-facing, and protected from the prevailing northern winds and frost. The estate consists of more than 80 individual plots, all of which are vinified separately. One of the keys to the location’s significance is that the vines are planted in terraced amphitheaters following the contours of the mountainside, which shelters them from the harsh weather on the leeward side. This ideal location is why generations of inhabitants have sought shelter and farmed the site for centuries.
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.