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- Bodegas Laukote Rioja Viura Blanco 2010 Product #25917 (In Stock)
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A brilliant example of white Rioja, at once rich and fresh, showing the concentration and complexity you only get from carefully winemaking and 80 year old vines. With just 3 months in oak, you'll find aromas and flavors of pears, passion fruit and peach and a terrific sense of minerality. A note of vanilla bean joins green melon, peach and citrus on the juicy, fresh, finish.
- Bodegas Laukote Rioja Vendimia Seleccionada 2008 Product #24899 (In Stock)
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Norberto Miguel only makes this, his top wine, in selected vintages of exceptional ripeness and quality. It’s from 80+ year-old Tempranillo vines planted by Norberto’s grandfather and grown on the rocky, barren, soils of Rioja Alavesa. This is just about the perfect marriage between Rioja tradition and modern winemaking sensibility. The aromas are starting to unfurl, with brooding dark black raspberry and plum fruit and baking spice swirling in the glass. In the mouth it’s powerful and full with loads of dark black fruit, purple flower, and iron minerality. The oak treatment is perfect here, giving spice and complexity but not overwhelming the wine. Decant now or give it a few years to unwind – I’m drinking the 2005 at home right now, and it’s got another 5 years or so improvement in front of it!
"The 2008 Vendimia Seleccionada is also 100% Tempranillo sourced from 80+ year old vines and aged in French and American oak for 14 months. Aromas of balsam wood, tobacco, spice box, rose petal, and blackberry inform the nose of a ripe, sweetly-fruited, concentrated wine with a sense of elegance. Give this lengthy effort another 1-2 years of bottle age and drink it from 2013 to 2023." Wine Advocate 91 points
- Bodegas Laukote Rioja Vendimia Seleccionada 2009 Product #26360 (In Stock)
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From 80+ year-old Tempranillo vines, hand-harvested, and crushed by foot to extract plenty of color and flavor without getting harsh tannins from the stems or seeds. After vinification the wines go into American and French oak barrels – in 2009, 4 new and 12 old (7 years). The result is just about the perfect marriage between Rioja tradition and modern winemaking sensibility. In 2009 – the best vintage in Rioja since the great 2005 – this shows all of the power and depth of the past few releases but with a smidge more elegance and purity. It’s already generous aromatically, with powerful scents of black raspberry and plum fruit accented by notes of sweet spice, tobacco, violets and a touch of iron. The flavors are rich and almost lush with loads of ripe, dark, fruit lifted up by a note of blood orange acidity and supported by masses of fine, velvety, tannins. Drink now with rich or smoky foods or let it get even more elegant and complex over the next 8-15 years.
