Vinedos de Paganos La Nieta 2018 (750ML)

98 TA / 97 WE / 95 VM

At its best - and La Nieta is a very good example - 2018 produced some delicious wines in Rioja. This single vineyard parcel of 1.78 hectares, planted on bony clay and limestone soils in 1975, has produced one of the wines of the vintage. Spicy, textured and beautifully wooded, it has precision, poise and palate length. --Tim Atkin

This deeply colored wine features a bouquet of black cherry, white chocolate and clove. It fills the palate with firm tannins and flavors of blackberry preserves, milk chocolate, roasted fennel bulb and orange zest. Notes of violet and flint grace the enduring finish.  - MD, Wine Enthusiast

Dark, brilliant ruby. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes red and blue fruit preserves, incense and potpourri, along with building mineral and exotic spice nuances. Juicy, appealingly sweet and concentrated on the palate, offering intense black raspberry, cherry liqueur and spice cake flavors that become livelier with air. Smoothly blends power and delicacy and finishes extremely long and smooth, with well-knit tannin's and resonating florality. Drinking window: 2025 – 2035 –Josh Raynolds, Vinous Media