La Rioja Alta: Gran Reserva 904 Seleccion Especial 2015

La Rioja Alta: Gran Reserva 904 Seleccion Especial 2015

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Tempranillo 90%, Graciano 10%
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rød, tør
Modnet
14,5% Vol.
Modenhed til at drikke: 2025–2050
Pakket ind i: 12s
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voluminøs og kraftfuld
rig på tanniner
silkeblød og aromatisk
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Lobenberg: 97/100
Suckling: 98/100
Tim Atkin: 96/100
Galloni: 95/100
Parker: 95/100
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Spanien, Rioja
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Allergener: Sulfitter,
lobenberg

Heiner Lobenberg om:
Gran Reserva 904 Seleccion Especial 2015

97
/100

Gran Reserva 904 er den klassiske repræsentant for en stor Rioja. Druerne kommer fra de gamle vinstokke i de lave vinmarker. Medium, dyb teglrød farve. Intens i næsen, delikate modne blommer og sultanas. Et par kandiserede frugter ledsager kanel, nelliker og chokolade. Et strejf af mynte gemmer sig i baggrunden. Den er afbalanceret i munden og overrasker med næsten utroligt silkebløde tanniner. Den 4-årige fadlagring og efterfølgende modning i flasken polerer vinen til en højglans. Gran Reserva 904 bliver hængende længe... 1 minut, 2 minutter... frugten bliver hængende. En lang løber med en strålende glød. 97/100

98
/100

Suckling om: Gran Reserva 904 Seleccion Especial

Very impressive complexity and width on the nose, showing lots of savoriness with mushrooms, sandalwood, cedar, sweet spices, dried oranges and tobacco. Really even and juicy on the palate with fine and very present tannins. Juicy, creamy finish lasting a minute. Really elegant and layered. It goes on and on. A real Rioja Gran Reserva and I recommend buying a case! The first vintage that La Rioja Alta labelled ‘Seleccion Especial’. So appealing now, but this will evolve well in the next 20 years. 98/100

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/100

Tim Atkin om: Gran Reserva 904 Seleccion Especial

This impressive release of 904 marries Tempranillo from the area around Haro (Briñas, Rodezno and Villalba) with 10% Graciano from Fuenmayor. Classically spicy and perfumed, with tell-tale American oak sweetness, notes of cigar box and forest floor, racy pomegranate, red cherry and goji berry fruit and textured tannins. 2024-29 96/100

95
/100

Galloni om: Gran Reserva 904 Seleccion Especial

Vivid ruby. Expansive red and blue fruit preserve, tobacco, potpourri, spice and botanical herb aromas, with vanilla and smoky mineral notes emerging as the wine opens up. Sappy, penetrating and gently chewy on the palate, offering vibrant, mineral- and spice-accented black raspberry, bitter cherry and rose pastille flavors that deepen and turn sweeter on the back half. Shows sharp focus and floral lift on the impressively long, youthfully tannic finish, which leaves behind notes of candied blue fruits and spicecake. 95/100

95
/100

Parker om: Gran Reserva 904 Seleccion Especial

They used the words subtlety, elegance, finesse, delicacy and silk to define the 2015 Gran Reserva 904 Selección Especial, a blend of 90% Tempranillo from their vineyards in Villalba, Briñas and Rodezno with 10% Graciano from the Montecillo vineyard in Fuenmayor that was picked 23 days later than the Tempranillo. The grapes were sorted optically for the first time, and they fermented in stainless steel where the wine went through malolactic too. The wine was put in barrel in January 2016—used American oak barrels built by their own coopers—where it matured for four years, during which time it was racked every six months. 2015 was a healthy vintage with balanced ripeness that delivered wines with good aging potential. They thought the wine needed a little more time in bottle to polish those tannins and have decided to hold it and release the wine around March 2023; it will be marked Selección Especial, the first 904 to do so, as they have very high hopes for this year and believe it's one of the finest vintages. They think it will develop the sophistication in the palate with a little more time and that is should achieve the silkiness that is the signature of 904. This is very 2015; I saw quite strong tannins in all the 2015 wines I tasted from Rioja Alta. There are some 150,000 bottles of this. 95/100

Min vinmager

La Rioja Alta

La Rioja Alta blev grundlagt i Haro i 1877 og har altid været tro mod sin traditionelle linje uden nogen form for stilbrud. Som et velfortjent resultat af en sådan kvalitetsfilosofi er huset stadig et af de mest anerkendte i Rioja og hele Spanien.

Gran Reserva 904 Seleccion Especial 2015