Contino Cune Rioja Reserva 2017 / 2018 0

Usually 85% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano, 5% Mazuelo and Garnacha.

Vi?edos del Contino was created by Cvne and the family owners of the estate in 1973, establishing the ?ch?teau? concept in the Rioja region. It is found in an ancestral home inside a bend in the Ebro river. The wines are made exclusively from the stocks planted on its 62 hectares located in Laserna, near the town of Laguardia in the Rioja Alavesa wine making region.

94+/100 Parker’s Wine Advocate, Luis Gutierrez

“The renewed classical red 2016 Reserva was produced as a blend of 85% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano and 5% Mazuelo. It fermented in small stainless steel and concrete vats and matured in 225-liter French (80%) and American (20%) oak barrels for 18 months. It has a very expressive nose, open, aromatic and showy, a little Rh?ne-ish. 2016 was a cooler year and they had a long harvest, and it seems like the fruit ripened thoroughly without excess. It’s a natural continuation of the 2015, when the wine already had more freshness and better integrated oak. It has a full body and some dusty tannins, finishing dry and tasty. It’s ready to drink. There were 281,389 bottles and 3,000 magnums produced. It was bottled in May 2019.” Drink 2020 – 2030

17/20 JancisRobinson, Tim Jackson MW (2015 vintage)

“85% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano, 3% Garnacha, 2% Mazuelo. 90% of the winery?s production. Mid-deep ruby. Ripe, red-cherry fruit, with beautifully layered clove and cedar oak spice notes. Lovely integration of oak and fruit. Well crafted, though there?s a good backbone of fine tannins that will carry it through for a decade from now. (TJ).”