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2005 Gran Reserva 890, Selección Especial, La Rioja Alta, Rioja, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Tempranillo
Ready - youthful (Drink 2018 - 2054)
Luis Gutiérrez
95/100
Product: 20058029652

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2005 Gran Reserva 890, Selección Especial, La Rioja Alta, Rioja, Spain

Description

A mature colour; garnet and red brick, hessian, deeper at the core. One is immediately distracted by aromatics of truffle, forest floor and suede, behind that laurel and lavender, then pressed blackcurrant leaf and fig. Effortlessly evocative. Vestigial fruit is shrouded in spice, herbs and a hint of game. Still evolving but already munificent. Don't bother with the Cognac, just keep going with this!

Drink 2024 - 2045

Simon Field MW, Decanter.com (April 2024)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2005
Maturity Ready - youthful (2018 - 2054)
Grape List Tempranillo
Body Full Bodied
Producer La Rioja Alta

Critics reviews

Luis Gutiérrez 95/100
I tasted the 2005 Gran Reserva 890 again, and I liked it better this time than in my previous review, even if I normally like the Gran Reserva 904 better than this bottling, as I find it better balanced. I tend to feel less energy in this wine, as it spends a very long time in barrel, six years in this case. 2005 was an excellent vintage, and they implemented some improvements in the harvest, introducing 350-kilo boxes and refrigerated transport to the winery, which they think provides better grapes and potentially better quality of the wines. The palate is medium-bodied, the tannins have mostly melted, and it has lively acidity that lift the wine up. This is a very classical and polished Rioja. 57,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2012.Luis Gutirrez - 28/06/2019
Luis Gutiérrez, RobertParker.com (Jun 2019)

About this wine

Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

A high quality red wine grape that is grown all over Spain except in the hot South - it is known as Tinto Fino in Ribera del Duero, Cencibel in La Mancha and Valdepenas and Ull de Llebre in Catalonia. Its spiritual home is in Rioja and Navarra where it constitutes around 70% of most red blends.
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La Rioja Alta

La Rioja Alta continues to be one of the benchmarks for traditionally produced Rioja wine. Established in 1890 at the same spot where their head office sits today, their three Reserva Wine brands, Alberdi, Arana and Ardanza are named after the founding families, all three of which remain shareholders. The company still maintains traditional Rioja winemaking practices whilst embracing many of the new technological advances.
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