Vina Otano, Rioja Gran Reserva Blanco

The Blanco Gran Reserva is a golden wine featuring a prominent oak-centric aroma with ripe fruits and hints of anise, pink grapefruit and herbs. It presents a dry, creamy and chalky profile, offering mild freshness and expressive characteristics—a New World style of white Rioja.

Winery: Vina Otano
Appellation: Rioja
Average age of vines: 95 years old
Farming Methods: Practicing Organic
Maturation: 36 months in 85% French and 15% American oak barrels
Soil: Calcareous clay
Varietal: 95% Viura and 5% Garnacha Blanca from 95-year-old vines
Vineyard Orientation: 650 meters
Vineyard Size: N/A

Wine	Scores	Downloads	Reviews
Vina Otano, Rioja Gran Reserva Blanco 2015	92 Wine Enthusiast This wine offers a bouquet of green pear and white chocolate. Tropical fruit and citrus flavors wash over the palate, joined by notes of butterscotch, cocoa butter and toasted almond that linger into the enduring finish. 92 View from the Cellar The 2015 Rioja Blanco “Gran Reserva” from Viña Otano is continuing to blossom since I last had the pleasure to taste a bottle a year ago. The bouquet is deep and complex, wafting from the glass in a mix of pear, macadamia nut, white lilies, salty soil tones, orange peel and coconutty oak tones. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a lovely core of fruit, fine soil signature, a nice framing of oak and impressive length and grip on the very well balanced finish. This is really a lovely wine that is drinking with impressive generosity, but has plenty of potential to cruise along for several more decades in the cellar. 2023-2050.	Bottle Image Label Image Shelf Talker Tech Sheet