Bodegas Fernando Remirez de Ganuza - 1996 - Reserva - 3 L

Country: SpainRegion: Rioja Varietal: 90% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano.Vintage: 1996 - Size: 3 L. - Type: RedGrapes sourced from vineyards with an average age of more than 60 years. Through manual harvest, bunches are transported in 12-kg boxes to thermo regulated cooling chambers and stored for 24 hours before fermentation. Grapes are manually selected on a sorting table, and each cluster is separated in shoulders and tips. This wine is made from destemmed Tempranillo shoulders. Fermentation in 7000-litre frenck oak vats, stainless steel deposits and concrete tanks of different capacities and shapes. Malolactic fermentation is performed in barrel.Expert NotesRobert Parker: 94The 1996 could be called the Chateau Latour of Rioja. An opaque black/plum color is followed by aromas of minerals, cigar tobacco, cedar, lead pencil, and sweet black currant, plum, and cherry fruit. One of the greatest young Riojas I have ever tasted, it exhibits full body, a huge, concentrated pa