Excellent Selection Viña Lorea Rioja Crianza

Due to aging for a year in wooden barrels, this Rioja is indeed soft and smooth, but you can still taste the fresh fruit. Delightful on its own and recommended with meat, pasta, and cheese. Colour, flavour: red, robust Grape variety: tempranillo, grenache, mazuelo Country, region: Spain, Rioja Good with: Pork, Chicken Awarded: De Grote Hamersma 8.5 For the AH Excellent Selection, the wine buyers of Albert Heijn search worldwide for the most special wines. Special because they come from a new region, or are very traditional, from a well-known winery, or made by trendsetting winemakers. An AH Excellent Selection wine has a story to tell. Rioja is one of the great, classic wines of Europe with its own style. Actually, you should speak of styles. There are the traditional Riojas, with warm, spicy aromas from aging in American oak. And there are modern Riojas in which, alongside that spiciness, you clearly taste fresh fruit. This is how this Viña Lorea Crianza tastes. It comes from Cune, a winery founded in 1879. Our buyers worked with the winemakers of this company. They selected a full-bodied wine that they aged in barrels for a shorter time than usual. That is the secret, because it keeps its fruity aromas but also gains extra depth and a wonderfully soft aftertaste. This is Rioja as we like to drink it now.