Villota Rioja 2019

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Varietal

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Vintage
2019

Size
750ML

ABV
14%

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Winemaker Notes

Live, fresh, juicy. Attractive on all occasions. It reflects well the vineyard's personality, with its remarkable proportion of Graciano variety, which provides a vibrant acidity.

Blend: 84% Tempranillo, 11% Graciano, 5% Garnacha

Professional Ratings

  • 93
    Deep, lurid ruby. Mineral- and smoke-accented blackberry, cherry and tobacco scents pick up floral and vanilla accents with air. Sappy, expansive black and blue fruit and violet pastille flavors open up steadily, energized by a spicy topnote. Concentrated yet lively in style, with a smoky mineral quality that adds cut to the impressively long, floral- and spice-driven finish.
  • 92
    COMMENTARY: The 2019 Villota Rioja shows excellent intensity from start to finish. TASTING NOTES: This wine shines with aromas and flavors of black fruit, licorice, and savory spices. Enjoy it with grilled short ribs. (Tasted: August 22, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
  • 92

    Dusty sweet spices to the mixture of berry fruit and chocolate. Rich and flavorful on the palate but fresh and tight with plenty of juicy and ripe cherries and blueberries that last into the sappy, long finish. Fine-grained tannins throughout.

  • 91

    The 2019 Villota checks in as 84% Tempranillo, 11% Graciano, and 5% Garnacha. It's slightly more closed and reticent but has similar red, black, and blue fruits as well as floral, spicy, mineral-laced aromas and flavors. Concentrated and medium to full-bodied, with good acidity and ripe tannins, going to benefit from a year or three of bottle age and keep for a decade. Best After 2023 Rating: 91+

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Viñas del Lentisco – Villota is a project owned, operated, and founded by Carmen Pérez-Garrigues and her father Ricardo Pérez-Villota, the fourth and third generations respectively of the Pérez-Villota family, a line of growers and vigneron that have been rooted to the San Rafael estate in Laserna, Laguardia, Rioja Alavesa on a meander of the Ebro Rivera since 1930. While their current bodega was founded in 2013, the Villota-Pérez family are one of the most important families in the 20th century history of Rioja.

In 1930, Ricardo Pérez-Pérez, native of Rioja, settled on the San Rafael estate in Laserna. At the time, the 160 Ha. estate was planted to vitis vinifera but was in considerable disrepair. It was Ricardo’s son, Ricardo Pérez-Calvet, an agricultural engineer by trade, who began recovery and resuscitation of the vineyard, and began producing wine for his own personal consumption. The family soon began selling grapes to local producers and quickly became one of the most important qualitative suppliers for Viña Real, CVNE’s Rioja Alavesa property.

In 1973, the Villota family cofounded Viñedos del Contino, Rioja's first single estate winery with José Ángel Madrazo and CVNE. The partnership remained for 40 years, until in 2013, the Pérez-Villota family left the partnership. The family’s inspiration is to continue their trajectory as vigneron and to continue and improve the tradition of vinification of honest and transparent wines that communicate the history of one of Rioja’s most historic and important vineyard estates. 

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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.

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