Lagunilla Rioja Gran Reserva Tesco Wine Club : 131 results priced between £10.00 and £200.00

I expected a 'fruit' full wine. It was much too dry for me, very little body and lacked 'lip-smacking' fruityness. I suggest it would be popular with elderly gentlemen who like 'well-hung' game; ( i.e . someone who had jjust a few taste-buds operating.) It went well with dolcelatte cheese and a mild curry. I missed memories of a rioja that I had in Toledo one hot summer's evening. Rich, full bodied and succulent.

Bottle Description Notes: The 2005 Gran Reserva is a blend of 85% Tempranillo, 10% Mazuelo and 5% Graciano: a selection of the best grapes from 20- to 25-year-old vines that is then aged in American and French oak for 24 months. It has an intense minty nose of blackberry, smoke and grilled meats that is well-defined, but surprisingly taut considering the vintage. The palate is medium-bodied with a tarry, leathery entry. The tannins are fine and linear, the finish classic in style with a dash of...

The grapes are hand harvested spending 24 months in American oak , 6 months in French oak casks and a total time in the bottle of 36 months. This wine is bright ruby red with a brick-red rim. A high intensity wine on the nose, very expressive in a modern style. You can find aromas of wood, tobacco, cigar paper, cedar wood boxes, balsamic liquorice and spicy hints of clove and of the land. In the mouth it is a smooth wine, with medium structure, sapid, fine and very pleasant. The retronasal phase...

Luis Canas Gran Reserva is a complex, well structured wine with ripe wild strawberry fruit overlaid with spicy, never domineering, oak flavours. Rich, meaty yet elegant - a very true representation of what made Rioja great.

In the production of Gran Reserva wines, Riscal uses grapes from old vines over 30 years of age, either from its own production or acquired from reliable local wine growers. Having selected the wine for Gran Reserva, following the assemblage of the vintage, the wine is transferred to American oak barrels where it remains for between two and a half and three years, plus a further three years in bottle before its release onto the market.

Elegance is the intended style for this wine which still has a long life ahead. This is a silky smooth Gran Reserva. Aged in both French and a little American oak and for 5 years in bottle.

A rich, full-flavoured wine with ripe berry fruit, good structure and excellent length.

75cl / 12.50% - Produced by La Rioja Alta, the Gran Reserva 904 is a rich, refined Rioja. It is made with natural malolactic fermentation and was aged in American oak for four years.

C.V.N.E., or to give it its full name, Compañía Vinicola del Norte de España (The Northern Spanish Wine Company) was established on the 24th of March 1879 in Haro, Rioja. Set up by two brothers, Eusebio and Raimundo Real de Asúa, their aim was to capitalise on the flourishing new trade in wine. C.V.N.E. is based in the traditional neighbourhood of the station, in the heart of the Rioja wine region.

A refined and elegant blend of Tempranillo and Graciano from Rioja. This beautiful deep purple wine has all the Viña Real hallmarks of bright fruit and lovely tannins. Fragrant and enticing, this gorgeous wine boasts ripe fruit that mingles with spice, cocoa, vanilla and cedar wood.

levels high shoulder (one only mid shoulder)- excellent labels

Grape Tempranillo, Mazuelo, Graciano Origin One of Spain's best selling brands, Viña Albina is one of the more traditionally styled wines in the Bodegas Riojanas portfolio, offering an elegant profile, and an emphasis on the spicy characters acquired from extended barrel ageing. Taste Now fully mature, this wine is fine and delicate, subtly blending notes of old leather, cigar tobacco and clove with raisined fruit flavours. Enjoy This wine has been cellared in perfect conditions throughout its maturity...

To the eye, it has a deep, dark colour with ruby glints around the rim. Its nose surprises you with its delicate balance of aromas. The wine opens up with ripe red berry aromas wich mingle with smoky nuances and hints of spices. Over the months, the aromas have become more and more complex, with reminders of its evolution coming through in the guise of leather and tobacco, amog others.

Grape Tempranillo Description Ruby red with medium density and a brick-like rim. The fruit is very mature, exhibiting raisin, prune and caramel notes, accompanied by vanilla, clove and leather. Silky mouth-feel and good length. Drink with all slow-cooked lamb dishes, or with nutty-tasting cheeses. Body

Our flagship range of premium quality Rioja’s from the Bodegas L Casado in the Rioja Alavesa. This pretty bodega has approximately 40 hectares of vineyard with vines an average age of 40 years. Eighty-five percent of the vines are the indigenous Tempranillo with the remainder comprising ‘blending’ varieties such as Graciano, Mazuelo and Garnacha. One of our personal favourites is the 1995 Reserva:

Rioja - Gran reserva especial - Marques de murrieta 2001

Tasting notes Marqués de Cáceres Grand Reserva Rioja 2004 The wines of Marqués de Cáceress are made as a partnership between one of the region's most innovative producers and Michel Rolland, one of the world's leading consultant winemakers. Their class and breeding shines through. An exquisitely fresh and elegant wine with floral and delicate herbaceousness on the nose, and rich redcurrant, wild strawberry and raspberry sorbet flavours dominating the palate. The fruit was selected from some of the...

Specially selected cuvées have been chosen by our buyer from the great Bodegas y Bebidas winery to provide an exclusively labelled and well priced range of classic Rioja’s.

Rich, intense, bold red - Rioja at its most generous and concentrated. Full of vigorous morello cherry and plum aromas then nutty vibrant coffee and black fruits on the palate. Layers of blackcurrant, chocolate and cedar spice develop towards the finish. Truly showy Spanish wine. ABOUT THIS WINE: This lovingly aged Spanish Rioja has seen 24 months in American and French oak, and 24 months maturation in bottle. Its characters have mellowed and gained rich complexity, and all those intense fruit...

Having just finished my supplies of the 2004 vintage I was delighted to see the 2005 @ less than £6 a bottle - this is a once a year price if your lucky and I had no hesitation in ordering 18 bottles. Beautifully smooth Gran Reserva from a very good vintage - well balanced flavours and a delightful finish. Great on its own or with food. Excellent wine for under £10, not sure about £15 on my budget!

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The grapes used to make Marqués de Riscal wines are grown in 1,500 ha. spread between Elciego and neighbouring villages such as Leza, Laguardia or Villabuena.The poor soils, from the different terraces over the river Ebro, are of the chalky clay kind. This sub zone of the Rioja Alavesa has traditionally been best known for producing wines with good ageing potential, thanks to the high acidity and good tannin structure of the musts obtained.

What a find! In the 1960s, this was one of the most prestigious estates in Rioja. Situated in Haro next to Muga and C.V.N.E.,they hold some fantastic vineyards. Currently relatively unknown, they are a slumbering giant. 1964 is the vintage for Rioja; I have tasted various wines from different estates and classifications and they all have the same sweet fruit, vibrancy and youthfulness. Retasted later that evening, it remained fresh and had gained a layer or two!

Paternina makes up part of the history of Spanish wine and of La Rioja. Bodegas Paternina was founded in 1896 by Federico Paternina Josue in Ollauri, in the Alta region. Today one of the big classics in Rioja, Paternina is driven by the desire to reach the highest quality in wine production, underpinned by the use of a mixture of new technological methods and traditional methods.

“A deliciously rich and full-bodied gran reserva with great complexity and an impressively ‘precise’ quality that sets it apart from the pack. Really well made, from one of the finest bodegas in Rioja. Valdemar are family-owned and grow all their own grapes (unusual for Rioja) from over 300 hectares across the Alavesa, Alta and Baja areas of the region.”

Muga was founded in 1932, and stands in El Barrio de la Estación, the railway quarter, in Haro. Today, Jorge Muga looks after the vineyards and the winemaking. He makes fine and elegant wines including this superb Gran Reserva made from grapes from mountain vineyards. This is one of the greatest traditionally farmed Riojas. Made from 80% tempranillo with 20% garnacha, mazuelo and graciano, it was aged for 36 months in barricas.

Well evolved Rioja from the Rioja Alta (cardigan needed even in late August), Vina Pomal Gran Reserva Rioja is lusciously smooth and made from Tempranillo (85%),Mazuelo & Graciano. Spot on with roast lamb.

Description and Reviews: CVNE is one of the most prestigious Bodegas in Spain and their Vina Real Reserva is one of the best style ‘old Riojas’ you’ll ever taste. Vina Real is delicate and floral wine. The 1973 CVNE Real Gran Reserva Rioja is extremely rare. These wines age extremely well, up there with the best Bordeaux and Burgundy.

Description and Reviews: Effusive spicy, dried citrus, floral nose, elegant mouthfeel, just enough acidity, and integrated tannins. Tastes not quite as good as it smells but the aroma is out of this world. As good as ever with this bottle. Dried roses, tar, orange peel. The aromas are truly soaring in a too-good-to-drink sort of way. The flavors are dominated by bloody iron then some sour cherry, it's dusty and perfectly acidic and is an all around goodness. Cellar tracker reviews

Ref: 9564/D22 Compania Vinicola del Norte de Espana (C.V.N.E.) is known colloquially to most Spanish wine drinkers as Cune. The company was founded in 1879 by the Real de Asua brothers and still remains in control of their direct descendants. In the '20s ownership started Vina Real and in '04 a new winery was built in Laguardia. In '73 Contino was created to further the concept of the single estate winery and has since been one of the principal leaders in the resurrection of the nearly extinct Graciano...

Description and Reviews: Effusive spicy, dried citrus, floral nose, elegant mouthfeel, just enough acidity, and integrated tannins. Tastes not quite as good as it smells but the aroma is out of this world. As good as ever with this bottle. Dried roses, tar, orange peel. The aromas are truly soaring in a too-good-to-drink sort of way. The flavors are dominated by bloody iron then some sour cherry, it's dusty and perfectly acidic and is an all around goodness. Cellar tracker reviews

**NEW** Perfect complex oaked and bottle aged red. Elegant, dark fruits, herbs and toasty notes. 13% Alc.

After the grapes have been through the sorting tables so as to remove any grapes which are not totally healthy and ripe, alcoholic fermentation takes place, at a controlled temperature of no more than 26ºC with the total time in the vat amounting to 14 days. Once the blend has been determined for this special type of wine, it was put into oak casks and aged for 32 months, followed by a further 3 years’ rounding off in the bottle, thereby completing the process of maturation and polishing of the tannins...