CVNE / Bodegas Contino: Rioja CVNE Imperial Reserva 2018

CVNE / Bodegas Contino: Rioja CVNE Imperial Reserva 2018

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94–95
100
2
Tempranillo 85%, Garnacha, Graciano, Mazuelo
5
rød, tør
14,0% Vol.
Modenhed til at drikke: 2025–2045
Pakket ind i: 6s
9
voluminøs og kraftfuld
struktureret
frugt-orienteret
3
Lobenberg: 94–95/100
Tim Atkin: 95/100
Parker: 94/100
Wine Enthusiast: 94/100
6
Spanien, Rioja
7
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lobenberg

Heiner Lobenberg om:
Rioja CVNE Imperial Reserva 2018

94–95
/100

Superklassisk Rioja, men klart defineret og præcis i den lige linje. Saftig, fint drikkeflow og masser af personlighed. Arketypisk historisk bedste Rioja-udtryk. 94-95/100

95
/100

Tim Atkin om: Rioja CVNE Imperial Reserva

The coolness of the Atlantic vintage in 2018 seemed to suit the more restrained, structured, age-worthy style of Imperial. Marrying fruit from Briones, Torremontalbo and Villalba, with ageing in a 70/30 mix of French and American oak, this is an inky, youthful, structured cuvée of Tempranillo with 15% Graciano and Mazuelo. Intense, layered and beautifully balanced. 2025-40 95/100

94
/100

Parker om: Rioja CVNE Imperial Reserva

The red 2018 Imperial Reserva keeps the brand profile of finesse, precision and power, produced with grapes that were picked between October 8th and 26th in a year like in the past—cold, rain and snow followed by a warm summer. It's a blend of Tempranillo and 15% Graciano, Mazuelo and Garnacha that were put through optical sorting and fermented in oak vats with a 20-day maceration. It matured in barrel for 24 months. It's 14% alcohol and has a pH of 3.57. It's a textbook Reserva from Haro, fine-tuning the grapes they use here trying to control the power of this cuvée, which has to be powerful but keeping the freshness. This is quite young and lively, quite impressive, really very good, getting close to the complexity of a Gran Reserva but with the extra oomph of its youth. 150,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2021. 94/100

94
/100

Wine Enthusiast om: Rioja CVNE Imperial Reserva

This deeply hued wine offers a bouquet of dark plum, black currant and aniseed. It is spicy at first sip, with flavors of clove, anisette, blackberry and cassis. Polished tannins make their presence known and then drift off into a cherry and violet finish. 94/100

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Bodegas Contino

Bodegas Contino ligger i Laserna på alluvial jord med masser af kalksten og småsten nær Ebro, i en bugtning af floden nedenfor Laguardia i Rioja Alavesa, klart den bedste region i Rioja og dermed i Spanien med hensyn til terroir og mikroklima.

Rioja CVNE Imperial Reserva 2018