2015 Bodegas Hermanos Pecina 'Finca Iscorta de Pecina' Gran Reserva, Rioja DOCa, Spain

Press Rated 94 pts Robert Parker Wine AdvocateA more modern Gran Reserva from a single vineyard, the 2015 Finca Iscorta de Peciña Gran Reserva was produced with the grapes from a 50-year-old vineyard, fermented with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel with a moderate extraction and short-ish maceration. It matured in used American oak barrels for four years and was racked every six months. It's a little darker, the color and the fruit profile, and it's intensely balsamic, with notes of camphor and abundant spicy notes. It's solid and seamless and fills your mouth; it's powerful with 15% alcohol and 6.2 grams of acidity, ripe but balanced. It should continue developing nicely in bottle. 16,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2020. 95% Tempranillo – 3% Graciano – 2% GarnachaMade from grapes from their oldest vines, highly-concentrated small mostly Tempranillo berries, with very low yields and thus extraordinary quality. Fermented 26º to 27ºC for usually twelve days, it spends