I’ve tasted this wine three times during 2011, and each look has left me more impressed by its delicacy and complexity. It is fairly easy to buy flavorful wines for $11, but extremely difficult to find ones that are genuinely light in body but still expressive in aroma and flavor. However, that’s precisely what this wine manages to do, and those aromas and flavors are true to Rioja’s traditions without seeming remotely stuffy. Delicious cherry fruit is edged with a subtle whiff of wood and a very pleasant suggestion of leathery earthiness.
