Description

Avec un rapport qualité-prix des plus attractifs, le Finca La Emperatriz Crianza 2015 fait partie de l’entrée de gamme des vins de parcelle si particuliers de ce domaine. Et pourtant, ses caractéristiques le placent en très bonne position dans la liste des Rioja de qualité. Un nez crémeux et épicé, du volume en bouche et un bon équilibre de fruit et de bois.

Fiche technique

Le domaine
Viñedos Hermanos Hernáiz
Type de vin
Red - Crianza
Millésime
2015
Alcool
13.7% vol.
Cépage
95% Tempranillo, 3% Garnacha, 2% Viura
Origine
Rioja

L'avis des experts

The Wine Advocate:

They softened the extraction and the use of oak with the 2015 Finca la Emperatriz Crianza, and it shows. They want the wines from the La Emperatriz estate to be longer rather than wider, while the new Las Cenizas (from Cenicero) is more voluptuous. This Crianza will not be released until June 2018 to give it some more time in bottle. It's a blend of Tempranillo with 3% Garnacha and 2% Viura from different plots, fermented in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and matured in 80% American and 20% French oak barrels for 12 months. It's ripe and open and a little grapey. The palate is medium-bodied with abundant, slightly chalky tannins that might require more time and/or powerful food. 180,000 bottles and 9,200 magnums produced. It was bottled in April 2017. - Luis Gutiérrez. 

James Suckling:

A layered and pretty red with dark-berry, dark-chocolate and walnut-shell aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied, integrated and tight. Drink or hold.