Hacienda Lopez de Haro - Gran Reserva 2010

Tasting notes

This grand wine is a bright cherry-red color with a high aromatic intensity, it is clean and sound. Complex on the nose with coffee, vanilla, roast and balsamic nuances integrated into an intense bottom note of ripe fruit. The palate is elegant and round. It is well balanced with a velvety attack followed by a pleasant acidity and a silky and full-bodied aftertaste resulting from its noble and ripe tannin. Its long aftertaste has spicy and balsamic hints, resulting from its long and peaceful ageing, as well as confit fruit nuances that uncover its personality.

Estate

Hacienda Lopez de Haro sits squarely in the fat heart of the best of Rioja’s vineyard regions, San Vicente de la Sonsierra. In this region the best old Tempranillo vineyards in Rioja Alta can be found. Cultivated using the goblet system on very poor soils, it greatly reduces their production and increases the quality of the bunches. The Lopez de Haro wines are elegant, complex and aromatic and have become the new classics of Rioja, their wines are made with care and passion while offering amazing quality and value.

Vinification

This wine was hand picked in late October and produced from a selection of low yielding, old vineyards 70+ years old, located in San Vicente de la Sonsierra. It was aged for 30 months in French and American oak barrels and racked quarterly. It was then bottle aged for at least three years prior to release.

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