Vina Otano, Rioja Gran Reserva Red

Viña Otano’s Gran Reserva is crafted from a blend of eighty percent tempranillo, fifteen percent graciano and five percent mazuelo. The wine is given twenty-four months aging in small barrels, with the oak being a combination of French and American. The wine spent an additional three years of bottle aging in the cellars prior to release. The 2016 Gran Reserva is fairly ripe at 14.5 percent octane, but impeccably balanced, offering up a complex black fruity nose of cassis, dark berries, cigar smoke, coffee grounds, a fine base of soil tones, lovely spice tones and a framing of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and still quite young, with a serious chassis of tannin, fine depth at the core, good balance and grip and a long, nascently complex and very promising finish. This is still emphatically a young wine and built for the cellar.

Winery: Vina Otano
Appellation: Rioja
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Maturation: Aged for 24 months in French and American oak barrels, racked every 6 months. Aged a further 36 months in bottle before releaseAged for 24 months in French and American oak barrels, racked every 6 months. Aged a further 36 months in bottle before release
Soil: calcareous clay
Varietal: 80% Tempranillo 15% Graciano 5% Mazuelo
Vineyard Orientation: 625-650 meters
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