Sierra Cantabria Crianza 2019

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  • 91 James
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  • 90 Wine &
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Product Details


Varietal

Region

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Vintage
2019

Size
750ML

ABV
14.5%

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Winemaker Notes

Sierra Cantabria Crianza is the flagship age-classified Rioja bottling produced by the Eguren family of San Vicente de la Sonsierra. Intense cherry in color with fine toasted notes (cocoa and coffee) and ripe fruit with definite expression. Powerful on the palate, smoky with well-balanced toasty notes of oak and fruit,

Professional Ratings

  • 92
    Deep garnet in color, this wine has a bouquet of black currant, dried marjoram and violet. Glossy tannins and black-cherry, purple-plum, vanilla, licorice and lavender flavors fill the palate and drift into pleasing candied-orange-rind finish.
  • 91
    The creamy and lactic 2019 Crianza was produced with pure Tempranillo that achieved good ripeness (14%), keeping freshness, the character of the 2019, a drier vintage than average with some heat but not excess, and the ripeness was perfect and the grapes very healthy. This is generously oaked after 14 months in used French and American oak barrels with rackings every six months. Very approachable.
  • 91

    A juicy and tight Rioja with plenty of spiced cherries, hibiscus and brambly fruit. Compact and succulent on the palate with some chewy and supportive tannins offering a solid backbone to the fresh, sappy fruit. Lightly grippy finish of medium length.

  • 90
    Dense with tannins, this heavyset Rioja is hard to see through, though it becomes less opaque with a day of air. The tannins are earthy and meaty, the fruit dark and curranty. Decant it for a grilled T-bone.

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Sierra Cantabria

Sierra Cantabria

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Sierra Cantabria, Spain
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Bodegas Sierra Cantabria was founded by Guillermo Eguren, a self-made bodeguero, who was, in the family tradition, a viticulturist. His family, native to San Vicente de La Sonsierra, one of the most sought-after terroirs in Rioja, had grown grapes in Rioja Alta and Alavesa since the 1870’s. For decades the family sold their grapes to local producers, but Guillermo recognized the potential that his family's vineyards had to create great wine and founded Bodegas Sierra Cantabria in 1957. Today, the fourth generation of the Eguren family directs all aspects of the winemaking process, with Marcos Eguren as the winemaker and director of operations and his brother Miguel Angel Eguren as the general manager. The family still prides themselves as viticulturists first, and as a result, all the grapes are estate grown. As viticulturists in Rioja Alavesa, they grow a vast majority of Tempranillo, with only a small percentage of Garnacha and Graciano, as they recognize that Garnacha and Graciano do not ripen reliably in northern Rioja.

Bodegas Sierra Cantabria is the family's original winery and comprises a collection of their most classic style Rioja wines. Due to their viticultural background, the family’s wines are composed of mostly Tempranillo, as they recognize that Garnacha and Graciano do not ripen reliably in Northern Rioja.

Although the family's business has evolved over the years through the foundation of other projects, Bodegas Sierra Cantabria comprises their most traditional, classic styled wines. The wines are made from a blend of selected vineyards, as opposed to Viñedos Sierra Cantabria, which is the family's collection of single vineyard wines.

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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.

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