TEMPRANILLO 'LZ', TELMO RODRIGUEZ, SPAIN

RIOJA, SPAIN

Tasting Notes

Aromas of red and black fruit (cherry,blackberry),pencil lead,spice box. Sweetly fruited,balanced wine with excellent depth and length.

Producer's Notes

Telmo Rodriguez is a wine superhero. He travels the back roads of Spain by car,rescuing ancient varietals from extinction,restoring overgrown vineyards,and reinvigorating long-forgotten styles of Spanish wine.

This entry-level Rioja (pr. 'El Zed' in Canada) is a nod to Rioja of the 1920s. No American oak here,or even French for that matter,just exuberant Rioja fruit in all its purity.

Reviews & Accolades

(2016 vintage)

91 point: This is super expressive, from an unusual year that delivered quality and quantity, a rare combination. It's a superb, characterful, approachable Rioja with a completely different profile, fruit-driven with notes of licorice and an absence of wood, more in the style of a wine from Marcel Lapierre than what most people expect from a label that says Rioja. Superb value too. (Luis Gutiérrez, Robert Parker Wine Advocate, February 2018)