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[SOLD-OUT] Valenciso Rioja Reserva 10 Anos 2008

94+ POINTS WINE ADVOCATE! 94 POINTS TIM ATKIN!

 

"The purity of the 2008 10 Años Después transports me to the Rioja wines from yesteryear, even if the élevage was quite different from those wines. This matured in concrete for four and a half years and the spend five and a half years in oak barrels from the Caucasus. It seems to have more stuffing than the 2007, and the oak is also better integrated. It feels young--you wouldn't guess it's already ten years old--and it has the textbook aromas from Rioja. This should have a long and positive development in bottle." - Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate

 

"As its name indicates, this small cuvée of 4,000 bottles is released ten years after the harvest. Made from just three top parcels, it's more structured and robust than the Valenciso Reserva, with slightly marked oak but the same freshness and vivacity. This will live for some time yet." - Tim Atkin, 2019 Rioja Special Report

 

"The 2008 is just the third release of this unconventional Rioja and arguably the finest to date. This time around, the Valenciso team (Luis Valentín, Carmen Enciso and Ana Ruiz) selected three small parcels of fruit from 75-year-old vineyards in the north of Haro, and then aged the resultant wine in a single 50-hectolitre concrete tank for five years. It was then rested for 40 months in low-toast Caucasian oak (the same barrels Valenciso use for their Rioja Blanco). It was bottled in 2018, hence the name, which translates as '10 years after'.


Interestingly, the extended aging in concrete results in no loss of colour and has only seemed to intensify the wine's fruit purity and aromatic expression. Meanwhile the striking palate is both silky and savoury with a wonderful harmony of all components. It remains incredibly fresh and youthful, with blackcurrant and pine-scented fruit and a deep core of iodine-like complexity and fine tannins to close. Something very, very special." - Bibendum



 


Country:
Spain
Region:
Spain- Rioja
Variety:
Wine Red - Tempranillo
Size:
750mL

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$80.00

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