Eguren Ugarte Crianza 2019
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James
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Wilfred
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Mature fruit dominates in an incipient bouquet which captures the aging and a slight toasty aroma. Soft tannins makes it more palatable in spite of its young age. Long, excellent aromatic aftertaste.
Blend: 80% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacha
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James Suckling
Dark plums, black cherries and some roasted cumin. A medium-bodied red with a firm, frosted tannin structure and bright flavors of berries, plums, as well as a savory layer of tree bark and spice. Balance and drinkability is the key here.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2019 Eguren Crianza offers an Old World spin to the wine lover. TASTING NOTES: This wine exhibits aromas and flavors of dried spices, rustic, earthy notes, and black fruits. Enjoy it with an old fashion beef stew. (Tasted: December 6, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
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Founded in 1870 by Anastasio Eguren in the Rioja territory of Eguren Ugarte is a 140-year-old landmark family-owned winery known as one of the longest-standing vineyards in Europe. The winery has approximately two thousand meters of wine cellar caves and an average of thirty different varieties of wine and is a regular participant in the annual vendimia "first harvesting" festivals of its region. Eguren Ugarte has won several awards for its hotel accommodations and wine tours, and recently entered into a partnership deal with Delta Air Lines to supply wine in-flight. Eguren Ugarte is also a sponsor of the Santa Catalina Film Festival in Southern California and frequently supports other various independent art galleries and entertainment events internationally.
The sixth generation of winemakers located next to Páganos (Laguardia), this family winery has managed to maintain the traditions of winemaking, as well as the incorporation of all the latest growing and wine-making techniques, resulting in exceptional wines that have won major national and international awards. The climate in this area is Mediterranean but with a great Atlantic influence. Sierra de Cantabria acts as a natural protection barrier for cold winds from the north. The vines are planted in clay-lime soils located at an altitude between 400 and 700 meters above sea level.
Hailed as the star red variety in Spain’s most celebrated wine region, Tempranillo from Rioja, or simply labeled, “Rioja,” produces elegant wines with complex notes of red and black fruit, crushed rock, leather, toast and tobacco, whose best examples are fully capable of decades of improvement in the cellar.
Rioja wines are typically a blend of fruit from its three sub-regions: Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Oriental, although specific sub-region (zonas), village (municipios) and vineyard (viñedo singular) wines can now be labeled. Rioja Alta and Alavesa, at the highest elevations, are considered to be the source of the brightest, most elegant fruit, while grapes from the warmer and drier, Rioja Oriental, produce wines with deep color, great body and richness.