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2019 Viña Ardanza Reserva La Rioja Alta - 3x150cl
11B9VARRM3PK _ 2019 - Viña Ardanza Reserva La Rioja Alta - 3x150cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer La Rioja Alta
  • Region Rioja
  • Grape Tempranillo
  • Case size 3x150cl
  • Available Later

2019 - Viña Ardanza Reserva La Rioja Alta - 3x150cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer La Rioja Alta
  • Region Rioja
  • Grape Tempranillo
  • Case size 3x150cl
  • Available Later

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  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, March 2025

    The 2019 Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza is a joy. From a vintage touted to be on the best this century, it lives up to its billing. A lovely bold, rich nose, full of sweet baking spices and ripe cherry fruit. On the palate, it's soft and supple, with velvety tannins, pushed along with wonderful peppery acidity. Pert, fresh red fruit with a soft petal prettiness sits on top of the core of fruit. There is lovely integration of the oak, with vanilla and coconut providing a frame to the fruit rather than overpowering. The high proportion of Garnacha is key here (20% from the high altitude La Pedriza vineyard), providing a lift to this wine and a delicacy of red fruit, with the older vintage Tempranillo from the La Cuesta and Montecillo vineyards providing the power and depth. A profound Ardanza, and one that will age beautifully if you can resist its charms.

  • Wine Advocate, March 2025, Score: 94

    No 2018 was produced, so after the 2017 I tasted last year, we jumped to the 2019 Viña Ardanza Reserva, produced with a blend of 80% Tempranillo and 20% Garnacha. It fermented destemmed in stainless steel and aged in American oak barrels, 36 months for the Tempranillo and 30 months for Garnacha, and was blended before bottling. 2019 is a very good year for them, a small crop of powerful and concentrated wines when they produced all their brands, an exception. This is spicy, structured, balanced and powerful in this warm year, reaching the customary 14.5% alcohol and keeping a pH of 3.54 and 5.5 grams of acidity. It's still very young and undeveloped, with the classical profile, generous in American oak aromas and flavors that should slowly integrate in the wine with years in bottle. For them, 2019 means a change in Ardanza, less spicy (but still quite spicy, with clove, vanilla and tobacco leaves) and with more fresh fruit from the Garnacha. But the year is a modern version of 2015. 500,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in December 2023. No 2023 or 2024 will be produced either. Drinking date: 2025 - 2038

  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, March 2025

    The 2019 Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza is a joy. From a vintage touted to be on the best this century, it lives up to its billing. A lovely bold, rich nose, full of sweet baking spices and ripe cherry fruit. On the palate, it's soft and supple, with velvety tannins, pushed along with wonderful peppery acidity. Pert, fresh red fruit with a soft petal prettiness sits on top of the core of fruit. There is lovely integration of the oak, with vanilla and coconut providing a frame to the fruit rather than overpowering. The high proportion of Garnacha is key here (20% from the high altitude La Pedriza vineyard), providing a lift to this wine and a delicacy of red fruit, with the older vintage Tempranillo from the La Cuesta and Montecillo vineyards providing the power and depth. A profound Ardanza, and one that will age beautifully if you can resist its charms.

Producer

La Rioja Alta

When it comes to traditional style Rioja, La Rioja Alta remains the benchmark. Established in 1890 by Don Alfredo Ardanza, the estate has been producing beautifully crafted wines for over 125 years, maintaining the traditional winemaking practices that helped them earn their reputation as one of the finest producers in the region. At La Rioja Alta, every wine is produced with tremendous attention to detail. From racking by candlelight to employing an in-house master cooper, the estate monitors each barrel on an individual basis, ensuring intricacy and balance throughout the winemaking process. La Rioja Alta owns all 420 hectares of its vineyards, which is unusual for a bodega of such prominence, yet it allows head winemaker Julio Sáenz to have complete viticultural control, guaranteeing the quality of fruit. Named after its three founding families – Alberdi, Arana, and Ardanza – who are all still shareholders to this day, the estate is renowned for its Reserva wines. The pinnacle of Rioja winemaking however can be found in their two Gran Reservas – 890 and 904 – which both pay homage to the creation of La Rioja Alta (1890) and the year Don Alfredo added his own Ardanza winery to the bodega (1904). Only produced in exceptional years, and released after lengthy ageing in oak and bottle, the wines are classical Rioja with rich fruit and spice. Winemaking at its very best, it comes as no surprise that each new release is readily snapped up.

Region

Rioja

By far the best known of Spain's wine regions is Rioja, which takes its name from the rio(river) Oja, a tributary of the river Ebro. Lying in the north of the country, along the Ebro valley, the area is sheltered from rain-bearing Atlantic winds by the dramatic Sierra de Cantabria to the north and west. The hilly vineyards are interspersed with orchards, poplars and eucalyptus trees. Rioja is further divided into three sub-regions - Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Baja. The first two are best regarded, with vines planted on cool slopes with clay and limestone soils. The permitted grape varieties for Rioja are tempranillo, which is grown extensively in Rioja Alta and Alavesa and will form the backbone of all the best wines, garnacha, widespread in Rioja Baja and used to add body to the blend, and mazuelo (carignan) and graciano, both grown in miniscule proportions. The key to understanding Rioja is the technique used to mature the wine. Unlike most other areas of Europe, American oak barrels are used which give the wines their characteristic soft vanilla, almost coconuty flavour. Historically the wines were aged for periods far longer than legally required, until all the fruit character had died down and the end result was a light, tawny-coloured wine dominated by oak flavours. Although there are still supporters of this classic style, far more producers are making wines in a more modern way, allowing the dark berry fruit flavours to burst through balanced by a more judicious use of oak ageing and often opting for French oak now.

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