Las Beatas 2015

Tinto reserva de B. Lanzaga - Telmo Rodríguez

100 Parker, 98 Atkin y 98 Peñín

Variedades: Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano y Garnacha Blanca

Lanciego de Álava - D.O. Ca. Rioja

Capacidad: 75cl

Graduación: 14%

Elaboración: Agricultura biodinámica. Viñas viejas de más de 70 años con baja producción. 

Crianza de 19 meses en barricas de roble francés.

Notas de "The Wine Advocate" sobre la añada 2016

I was really anxious to taste the 2016 Las Beatas after the other-worldly 2015, where the field blend of eight or nine grape varieties produced 1,532 bottles from the 1.9 hectares of vines. The wine matured in a 1,200-liter oak foudre in a very cold cellar that provides a very slow evolution of the wine. It's the most backward and reticent of all the Rioja wines here. It's elegant, subtle and delicate, shy and slow to open up in the glass. The palate reveals great balance and very fine chalky tannins, with great purity and depth, and it's -more insinuating than in-your-face, with energy and length. I kept the bottle and retasted it a few hours later, because I like to see how a wine like this evolves. It developed further nuance; it is a world class wine. A superb Beatas. I later tasted it blind next to the 2015, and I don't think it quite reached the same level of nuance and elegance.

Notas de Cata de Peñín:

Consumo 2020-2035

Producción muy limitada a 1.532 botellas