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2009 Vina Ardanza, Reserva, La Rioja Alta, Rioja, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Tempranillo
Ready - youthful
Luis Gutiérrez
93+/100
Product: 20098029681
2009 Vina Ardanza, Reserva, La Rioja Alta, Rioja, Spain

Description

Red cherry in colour with a brick tinge, an expressive nose reveals sweet cherry fruit with vanilla spice, complemented by a lifted perfume of wild strawberry and red roses, courtesy of the Garnacha. Immediately supple in texture, there’s a warming richness across the palate which is laden with intense flavours of mulberry, damson, and coffee bean - owing to the generosity of the vintage. The tannins are present but ripe with a slight flintiness. A rasping cherry acidity maintains the composure of this alluring Rioja, emerging with savoury characteristics of cured meat and Asian spices towards the finish. Wonderfully balanced, this will be delicious to enjoy from summer 2018, but will develop further complexities over the coming 5-8 years if you can allow it! Drinking well from 2019 – 2025+.
Chris Lamb, Private Account Manager
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2009
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Tempranillo
Body Full Bodied
Producer La Rioja Alta

Critics reviews

Luis Gutiérrez 93+/100
The current vintage of one of the flagship wines from La Rioja Alta is the 2009 Via Ardanza Reserva, the second year it has contained 20% Garnacha grapes from their estate vineyards in La Pedriza in the village of Tudelilla in Rioja Baja. The Tempranillo comes from vineyards averaging 30 years of age in Fuenmayor and Cenicero. The hand-harvested bunches were sorted and put in boxes, transferred to the winery at 14 degrees Celsius to be destemmed and crushed, then the grapes fermented in stainless steel, including malolactic. The two varieties were aged separately, 36 months in used American oak barrels for Tempranillo and 30 months for Garnacha, and racked every six months. It was initially closed, shy and serious, riper and a little darker than the 2008 but still very balanced, serious and harmonious. The palate combines power with elegance, with some tannins, focused flavors, some chalky texture and a rustic touch that gives it character. 600,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2014.Luis Gutirrez - 01/03/2018
Luis Gutiérrez, RobertParker.com (Mar 2018)

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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