In the glass
Aroma: black cherry, cedar, tobacco, mocha, dried herb
Palate: dark fruit, fine tannin, spice, savoury
The estate's signature Reserva, made with the shoulder-selection method: powerful and polished yet structured and savoury, built to age.
What it pairs with
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Cordero asado al sarmiento
Vine-shoot-roasted suckling lamb is the canonical Rioja match; the wine's resolved tannins frame the sweet fat. -
Chuleton de buey a la brasa
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A thick aged-beef chop over embers meets the wine's savoury oak and grip. -
Jamon iberico
Cured Iberian ham echoes the wine's dried-cherry and leather register. -
Venison loin
Dark game meets the wine's mocha-and-cedar depth.
History
The Reserva is the estate's calling card, made from selected bunch-shoulder fruit and aged over two years in mixed oak.
- 1991 — First Remirez de Ganuza Reserva
Facts
- Producer
- Remirez de Ganuza
- Grapes
- Tempranillo (90%), Graciano (10%)
- Classification
- DOCa Rioja
- Oak
- Around 26 months in French and American oak
- ABV
- 14.5%
- Price
- EUR 40 to 70 at retail
- Drinking window
- 8 to 25 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1991
Scores
- Tim Atkin 94 (2015 vintage, reviewed 2021)