Type | Red wine |
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Allergens | Contains sulfites |
Alcohol contenti | 14.5% |
Production | 2,932 bottles |
Spec sheet
The wine
A wine emanating from the selection, made by the technical director, of vines with the lowest yield from Finca La Emperatriz’s Parcel No. 1.
Aged for 18 months in new French oak barrels.
What does this wine taste like?
View | Raspberry red / Black glints / Violet glints / Opaque / Bright / Thick tears |
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Bouquet | Higly aromatic / Fruit aromas / Black fruit / Lactic notes / Liquorice / Mineral notes / Complex |
Mouth | Intense / Concentrated / Robust / Voluminous / Rounded / Varietal notes / Long / Persistent |
Drinking and storing
Serve between 16ºC and 18ºC
Ratings and awards
2012 | 94 PN |
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2010 | 94 PN |
PN: Peñín
Customer reviews
Winemaking
Vinification material | Wood |
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Ageing period | 18 months |
Barrel age | New |
Type of wood | French oak |
The winery
Viñedos Hermanos Hernáiz
Finca La Emperatriz is one of the very few Rioja wineries to produce their wines from one single vine-growing plantation, which is customary in Bordeaux's Médoc region (other Rioja wineries employing the same model are Remelluri, Valpiedra and Contino). This is an estate of excellent quality whose potential had already been recognised at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1878 and which concealed a very important history. The estate originally belonged to Eugenia de Montijo,...