Sierra Cantabria Reserva, Rioja, Spain

塞拉麗亞酒莊珍藏紅葡萄酒

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2015 was a warm and powerful year with tannins, and the 2015 Reserva shows ripeness and jammy fruit, with plenty of spice and a powerful, full-bodied palate. It has 14.2% alcohol and a pH of 3.55. They used a little new oak here, 20%, and they used mostly French (70%) but also 30% American oak barrels, where the wine matured for 17 months. They like this style of San Vicente, powerful and ripe fruit, concentrated and expressive. 20,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2019. It's aging quite slowly.

2013 was not an easy vintage, but the 2013 Reserva shows poise and balance. It might be less concentrated than usual, and it was bottled at 13.6% alcohol. It matured in 225-liter barrels—70% French and the rest American—for some 17months, during which time it was racked every four months. This is a weaker wine, and the oak made a big imprint on the nose and the palate. It was a cold and rainy year, and the wines perhaps were not strong enough to take 18 months in oak. This is a traditional, filtered reserva, quite polished and soft. It's light to medium-bodied with spicy, smoky and creamy flavors and good acidity. 20,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2017.

The 2012 Reserva is pure Tempranillo from a dry and healthy vintage. It matured in oak barrels for 18 months and is classical, clean, balsamic, faintly smoky and layered. Even though it's from an extremely dry vintage, the wines from the cooler Sonsierra zone of Rioja managed to keep the freshness. There are notes of fresh meat, some iron and underbrush. The palate is juicy with soft, polished tannins and a velvety texture. 20,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2015.

The 2010 Reserva from Rioja, again comes from their oldest vineyards and is 100% Tempranillo aged 18 months in equal parts French and American oak. It shows plenty of graphite, blackcurrant, cedar wood and spice box in a complex set of aromatics. The wine hits the palate with loads of sweet, black cherry and blackcurrant fruit, spicy oak and finishes the medium-bodied, well-proportioned and long, opulent richness. This is a beauty to drink now and over the next decade.

The 2009 Reserva is 100% Tempranillo from relatively old vines aged 18 months in French and American oak prior to being bottled unfiltered. This is an outstanding Rioja from a great vintage for the appellation. This should drink well for at least another two decades. Deep plum/ruby/purple with notes of graphite, licorice, forest floor, tobacco leaf and oodles of black cherry and blackcurrant fruit, this full-bodied, dense, supple, silky textured Rioja can be drunk now or cellared for 20 years.