Criadores Rioja Tempranillo 'Castillo Clavijo' N.V

Bottle Description Tasting Notes: Garnet colour with purple glints, the wine has a nose of black cherries. With good intensity and smooth complexity with aromas of ripe red-berries, spices and vanilla, the palate of ripe fruit is soft and creamy with just enough tannin. Long finish in which the ripe fruit dominates. Code: W67

Bodegas Criadores de Rioja typifies twenty-first century Rioja in its careful balancing of tradition and innovation. The winery was established in 2000 with a view to modernising the production of Rioja wines whilst working with the scores of small, local growers to make wines that reflect the quality and history of Rioja. Under the careful eye of young winemaker Paloma Redondo, the winery is a palace of stainless steel - with oak barrels being used sparingly - but the wines themselves are true to...

The Reserva is aged for up to 24 months in French and American oak casks to give this wine real complexity, with ripe mature fruit, lots of spice and vanilla oak flavours.