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Red

2001 La Rioja Alta Rioja Viña Ardanza Reserva Especial

Tempranillo Blend

  • Spain
  • La Rioja
  • La Rioja Alta
  • Rioja
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  • rustyRudy Likes this wine: 95 points

    March 18, 2023 - Brick red, modest nose, tea, red cherry, licorice, cranberry and persistent tannins

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  • rdcolema Likes this wine: 90 points

    March 13, 2023 - Spice, pepper, red fruit

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  • Chekib m. Likes this wine: 94 points

    January 25, 2023 - This was excellent.
    Light to medium garnet.
    Typical aged nose, with aromas of stewed fruits, dried nuts, leather, vanilla.
    Light to medium body, soft and elegant, savoury, with intense flavours of stewed fruits, ripe red berries, vanilla.
    Very long after taste. Great complexity, balance and energy for an aged rioja.
    I still remember a bottle of 1988 I drink few years ago which was so perfect aged rioja. This one is as good with less age. Ridiculous QPR.

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  • short and confused wrote:

    January 17, 2023 - drinking perfectly. Lots of fruit still. Wow.

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  • MrD Likes this wine:

    December 30, 2022 - Really nice acidity and bright fruit (cherry?) with a bit of a barnyard finish.

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  • By Sarah Jane Evans MW
    La Rioja Alta Masterclass, 2/29/2020 (link)

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  • By Josh Raynolds
    September/October 2010, IWC Issue #152 (link)

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  • By Chris Kissack
    February 2008 (link)

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  • By Richard Jennings
    6/28/2012 (link) 92 points

    (La Rioja Alta Rioja Viña Ardanza Reserva Especial) Bricking dark red violet color; appealing, dried berry, fruitcake, baked black fruit, licorice nose; mature, silky textured, baked berry, baked plum, prune, licorice palate; medium-plus finish 92+ points

  • By Richard Jennings
    5/2/2011 (link) 89 points

    (La Rioja Alta Rioja Viña Ardanza Reserva Especial) Mature, plum, dill, oak nose; mature, light-medium bodied, plum, black fruit palate; medium-plus finish

Wine Definition

  • Vintage 2001
  • Type Red
  • Producer La Rioja Alta
  • Varietal Tempranillo Blend
  • Designation Viña Ardanza Reserva Especial
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country Spain
  • Region La Rioja
  • SubRegion La Rioja Alta
  • Appellation Rioja
  • UPC Codes 8413529821087, 8413529822084, 890841002031

Community Holdings

  • Pending Delivery 84 (1%)
  • In Cellars 6,567 (43%)
  • Consumed 8,558 (56%)

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Community Recommendations

Beef, Lamb, Paella, Aged Gouda, charcuterie, could be longer. Time to drink., creative edge caterers, ei tarvi mitään, Elegant, garlic bread

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96% Like It  301 votes

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