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2010 Rioja Viña Ardanza Reserva Selección Especial, La Rioja Alta
The 2010 Viña Ardanza is a very special wine. Just the fourth time it's been designated Selección Especial in its history, this is one for the long haul. The palate is tightly wound, with fresh damsons, tobacco spice, and vanilla essence: it's hard to believe that this is already nine years old today. There's piercing freshness, and such refined, silky tannins, with a perception of salinity on the finish. This is remarkable: drink it from now, over the next fifty years!
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Wine specification
- ProducerLa Rioja Alta
- ColourRed Wine
- SweetnessDry
- Region & CountryRioja Alta, Rioja, Spain
- ABV13.5%
- MaturityReady to drink 2020 – 2045
- StyleStill Wine
Product Description
The 2010 Viña Ardanza is a very special wine. Just the fourth time it's been designated Selección Especial in its history, this is one for the long haul. The palate is tightly wound, with fresh damsons, tobacco spice, and vanilla essence: it's hard to believe that this is already nine years old today. There's piercing freshness, and such refined, silky tannins, with a perception of salinity on the finish. This is remarkable: drink it from now, over the next fifty years!
Critic Scores
96/100 – James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
01/07/2019
Dried cherries, cedar, sandalwood, tar, treacle tart, cinnamon and vanilla. Medium body, fine-grained and very silky tannins for a wine of almost 10 years of age, bright and transparent acidity and a long, very spicy finish. Like going back in time and touching an ornate tapestry. The texture is mesmerizing
95/100 – Luis Gutierrez, Wine Advocate
01/06/2019
2010 was a great vintage in Rioja in general and seems to be exceptional here, with a 2010 Viña Ardanza Selección Especial (what used to be Reserva Especial) that can challenge any of the recent vintages and hopefully can develop in bottle to reach the heights of years like 1973 or 1964. The wine is expressive, aromatic, very elegant and clean, with classical Rioja aromas of long aging in barrel and slow oxidation through the years in wood. The palate is polished and sleek but shows plenty of energy, with very fine, mostly resolved tannins and very good harmony and persistence. There is great complexity, and you could start smelling spice and smoke to move to earthy tones, hints of beef blood, cherries in liqueur, curry, diesel, old furniture and forest floor. A great Viña Ardanza!