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Anza Rioja Especial 2019 750ml

size
750ml
country
Spain
region
La Rioja
appellation
Rioja
WA
95
Additional vintages
2021 2020 2019 2018
WA
95
Rated 95 by Wine Advocate
I found lots of notes of licorice in the 2019 Anza Especial. The wine is expressive and elegant, very approachable and much fresher than I expected from a warm and dry year. Diego Magaña likes to harvest early, and I think in 2019 he got it completely right: the wine is just below 14% alcohol and has a pH of 3.5. He selects plots where he finds something special, and this is his top cuvée, where he searches for finesse and precision. It has a medium to full-bodied palate with abundant chalky tannins and a long, dry finish. The vineyards bring different clones of Tempranillo but also other varieties that are intermixed in the vineyard—Graciano, Garnacha and perhaps up to 8% or 10% white Viura... The plots fermented destemmed separately in stainless steel and matured in used oak barrels for 14 months. 2,000 bottles were filled in January 2021. ... More details
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Anza Rioja Especial 2019 750ml

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Region: La Rioja

La Rioja is by far the most famous wine region of Spain, and remains one of the world's great wine producing regions, consistently offering deep, complex red wines of character and distinction, partly due to the fact that La Rioja benefits from excellent soils, rich in minerals and nutrients, and plenty of sunshine. The climatic conditions allow the fine grape varietals to reach full ripeness and express plenty of the best features of their terroir, making La Rioja wines some of the most interesting to have ever come out of Europe. The Cantabrian mountains to the north provide the perfect shelter from the colder, wetter influences of the Atlantic oceans, and in the beloved vineyards of La Rioja, wineries have been cultivating exceedingly flavorful Tempranillo grapes for generations for the inclusion in their fine single variety and blended wines.
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Country: Spain

For over two thousand years, Spain has been responsible for much of Europe's wine production, making the very best of native grape varietals, and more recently experimenting with and perfecting wines made from imported grapes. Of course, the region of La Rioja is renowned world-wide for the quality and characteristics of its wines, which benefit greatly from the warm, dry continental climate of the area, and the fertile soils of the Ebro river basin. However, there is far more to Spanish produce than the complex, aromatic and earthy red wine of this region, as a result of the vast range of wine making traditions and practices, and terrains and climatic conditions found across the country. The region Castilla y Leon produces some of Europe's finest white wines, and the sparkling wines of Cava and the sherries of Jerez are firm favorites for wine lovers around the world.