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Urbina 'Reserva Especial' Rioja 2006
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- TASTING NOTE: "Vivid ruby-red. Highly perfumed aromas of red and blue fruit preserves, coconut, mocha and pungent flowers, plus a hint of pipe tobacco emerging with air. Sappy and broad on the palate, offering sweet cherry-vanilla, spicecake and cola flavors and a hint of smokiness. Closes smooth, spicy and long, with lingering smokiness and fine-grained tannins adding subtle grip. Aged for two years in American oak barrels. (Drink between 2021-2028)" 92 Points - Josh Raynolds, Vinous Media
- ABOUT THE WINE: 2006 has a heightened red tea note, and really great fruit depth, as you would expect from this opulent vintage. That said, it’s classic Urbina house style: all that red note, vegetal, dry mulch and cedar forest cold air perfume. There’s tobacco with clovey woodiness, licorice and orris root, and earthiness both ‘shroomy and mineral. It’s delicious, savoury and rounded with lovely tea tannin stripes. Bodegas Urbina
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: 5 generations of Urbinas have managed this property since the 1870s. Urbina make ‘classically styled’ Rioja (Gran Reservas and the like with regular racking and so forth) from their own vines and are a village-specific producer, with their best wines all from the cold limestone sand soils of Cuzcurrita del Rio Tiron, west of Haro in the Ojo-Tiron Valley under Montes Obarenes.
- COUNTRY: Spain
- REGION: Rioja Alta
- VARIETAL: Tempranillo, Mazuelo, Graciano
- WINE STYLE: Red Wine
- WINEMAKER: Pedro Urbina & Jesus Angel Urbina
- CLASSIFICATION: Sustainable Farming
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 14%
- SIZE: 750ml
