Spanish & Portuguese Wine

San Vincente Rioja 2021

$79.99
Before Marcos and Miguel Angel Eguren, there were no single-vineyard wines in La Rioja. In 1985, the brothers carefully planted 45 acres of a rare Tempranillo clone in a tiny valley at the foot of the Sierra de Cantabria mountains—they named their vineyard La Canoca. The brothers spaced the vines more tightly than they ever had before, forcing them to send roots deep into the limestone-rich soil for nutrients, energy, and what would turn out to be immense, mineral-driven complexity.

Professional Scores

95

The 2021 San Vicente showcases the completeness of the year with a rare combination of power and elegance, with intensity of fruit, clout and very good freshness and the roundness of the tannins from the year. It has a lot of everything; the selection of Tempranillo used for this wine gave a lot of color, notes of aromatic herbs and ripe berry fruit and a solid palate, but it's fine-boned, with a beautiful texture. It's still young but already shows incipient complexity. It absorbed the new oak (French and American) pretty early, and the aromas and flavors are very integrated. It should be very long lived. This is one of the finest vintages for San Vicente.

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750ml