Tapias de Marques de Riscal 2021 (750ML)

97 DE / 97 JS / 97 DB

Platinum Medal 2024 Decanter World Wine Awards

The perfect marriage of finely toasted spicy oak and simmering dark cherry fruit which oozes and swells across the nose and palate. Deeply concentrated, with a crunchy, mouth-filling texture and intense tannins. Full of youthful exuberance. - Decanter

A modern, glossy and polished Rioja, showing depth and refinement. Yes, the creamy oak knocks at the door now, behind which is a wealth of spices, blackberries, black currants and red cherries with cocoa powder and graphite. Hedonistic and oaky in nature but has filigree tannins and a long, fragrant finish that goes on for almost a minute. A bit oaky now, but this will age beautifully. Drink from 2027.-James Suckling

(Rioja DOC; 100% Tempranillo; 15% alcohol). Intense, bright and fresh, but with a very full robe, nice amplitude and a pronounced sense of aromatic tension. The aromatics lead one to anticipate, even before it passes one’s lips, the struggle between the amplitude the fruit wants to take and the tannins that want to pull it back to the spine. Graphite and a touch of cedar with aeration. Sous bois notes. I find this quite bordelais in a way. Lovely. Leafy aromatics. Hyper-fresh. One senses the altitude. Light and lifted, yet considerable density. Dark berry fruits, brambles and mulberries, damsons. Wild thyme and lemon thyme. Ink. It’s fuller and deeper than you expect, with gloriously fine-grained tannins – not really beady before finer grained than that implies. Fantastically pure and precise, especially given both the layering and the density. Lovely structure. Beautifully shaped, but more fluid than chiselled implies. Long and gently rippling on the sapid and juicy finish. Excellent. A vin de garde as ever but all is there and with great harmony. - Colin Hay, The Drink Business