The Alcorta Reserva is made from 100% Tempranillo grapes.
Vinification and ageing Two years’ ageing in new and semi-new French- and American-oak casks and one in the bottle allows us to make a fruitier wine with deep colour and good structure.
Tasting Cherry red colour with a ruby rim, brilliant and crystal clear, with lots of depth. Complex nose with ripe red fruit aromas and hints of toasted oak and spices. Smooth, meaty and with good backbone and a prolonged, aromatic finish.
Prizes Silver Medal Decanter World Wine Awards 2008 Gold Medal Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2007
Elena Adell, Juan Alcorta winemaker “We know that Alcorta is a clear example of Rioja tempranillo cultivated in the Rioja Alta and, consequently, we listen to what each plot and each harvest tells us. We harvest by hand and we already know which plots have the potential to produce Reserva wines. Our reward is to have obtained a smooth, meaty, well-structured wine which has been recognised with a Silver Medal in Paris.”
What the critics say...
Peñin Guide: 87 points(01/01/2012)
Intense cherry red colour, garnet rim. On nose, chocolate, spicy, candied fruit. On palate, ripe fruit, spicy, dried but ripe tannins.
Pairing: Beef, Game Animals, Grilled Red Meats, Roasts, Stews.
Its espectacular architecture and the efficiency of its modern process of wine production place Juan Alcorta in the avant-garde of the wine-producing and the new culture of the wine.
Some of the processes, recovered from the tradition, as the grape descent by gravity and the excavation... of the cellar, are features of intelligence to the service of the final result. Wines as Campo Viejo, Alcorta, Azpilicueta or Marquess of Villamagna, are excellent examples.
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