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1 x Bottle of 1970 La Rioja Alta 890 (Gran Reserva)
Bottle number: 22,846/25,000 made

Mint bottle of undisputable one of the best rioja vintages of last century. Really hard to find bottles with this level, label and capsule. Must have bottle. This is the top wine from La Rioja Alta winery.

From our private stock collection - Kept in our controlled temperature cellar in pristine conditions. Ready to drink.

Elaboration
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90% tempranillo - 10% graciano & mazuelo - 13.5% alcohol

Tempranillo comes from the oldest own vineyards located in the Rioja Alta subzone, mainly from the municipalities of Briñas, Labastida and Villalba. The rest of the grapes originate from the Melchorón I and II estates in Briones and Rodezno.

Selection of grapes upon arrival at the winery. It remains for between 12 and 18 months in the large gray wood vats of the winery's foundational hundred-year-old oak, where it completes the malolatic fermentation and stabilizes. Racked in 225-liter American oak barrels made by the cooperage of the winery itself. It is aged for 96 months with a total of 14 manual rackings. Bottled directly from the barrel, unfiltered. 

Production limited to 25,000 bottles. A minimum of 72 months of aging in the bottle rack before being marketed.

Tasting Notes
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The color already promises, something unusual in a wine that has exceeded 50 years. It seems that he is still in his youth. Reddish ruby in color with a medium-high layer, bright, clean, without any hint of precipitates. Reddish reflections, coppery edge.

Purity and depth. An 890 amongst the great Rioja wines, there is no doubt about it... It is presented with gunpowder, full of floral aromas, withered petals, scented broom, and a background of Mediterranean spices (rosemary, sage, oregano, rock tea). A very subtle eucalyptus tip develops, almost pine resin, which brings us a touch of fallen leaves, walnuts, truffles and chestnut branch. Elegant as it continues to grow, offering very ripe, reduced red fruit, with a very fine toasted hint of freshly ground coffee, cocoa butter, fine wood, cigar leaf and cigar ash.

On the palate it is pure roundness and balance. Fresh, without excessive initial weight but a long journey ahead. Full of small details, very... very complex, tasty, long... The spices somehow cover up red fruit jam that finally stand out. The tannins are pure silk and the acidity covers everything like a velvet glove.

94 points John Gilman
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I have crossed paths with at least half a dozen bottles of the 1970 La Rioja Alta “890” over the last several years, and the wine has seemingly gotten better with each bottle tasted. For much of its life, this wine was just a tad sappy and borderline overripe, with the exuberant fruit tones having the upper hand over the other aromatic and flavor elements in the wine. 

However, the last couple of bottles that I tasted were better delineated, more vibrant and much better focused, with the spice and soil tones of old Rioja now coming fully into balance alongside the now more refined fruit, giving the wine much more precision and breed. As most of the bottles came from the same source originally, I have to assume that this wine has simply taken thirty-five years to fully snap into focus and blossom fully. 

Nowadays the wine is outstanding, as it offers up a brilliant nose of raspberries, blood orange, woodsmoke, nutmeg, gentle undertones of cinnamon and lovely soil nuances. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, suave and complex, with great tangy acids, faded tannins, and excellent length and grip on the seamless and haunting finish. This is a very classic and lovely example of La Rioja Alta’s house style at its finest (tasting 2008)

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1970 La Rioja Alta, Reserva 890 - La Rioja Gran Reserva - 1 Bottle (0.75L)

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