Viñedos del Contino (CVNE)

Reserva Rioja Tempranillo Blend

9.234 ratings
8.72 pro ratings
La Rioja Alavesa, La Rioja, Spain
Tempranillo Blend
Duck, Pasta, Beans & Peas, Goose, Chili & Hot Spicy, Exotic Spices, Game, Baking Spices, Herbs, Mushrooms, Hard Cheese, Turkey, Pork, Salami & Prosciutto, Tomato-Based, Venison, Pungent Cheese, Soft Cheese, Onion, Chicken, Veal, Paella
Top Notes For
Dock Hooks

An engaging spicy nose should pull you into a berry-delicious (blue, ras & straw) first blush that's tannic/acid creates a coating, clinging downstream flow that leisurely works the banks and turns then plunges into a clean freefall urging yet another swig... PS Bin 54 is rather perfect😎

An engaging spicy nose should pull you into a berry-delicious (blue, ras & straw) first blush that's tannic/acid creates a coating, clinging downstream flow that leisurely works the banks and turns then plunges into a clean freefall urging yet another swig... PS Bin 54 is rather perfect😎

1 person found it helpfulOct 10th, 2015
Tom Kobylarz

Fruitier than the Imperial Reserva with less oak influence.
Medium bodied, but with excellent acidity and freshness. A slightly reduced nose but the palate shows well the cherry, plum, cranberry, cinnamon, and iron.

Fruitier than the Imperial Reserva with less oak influence.
Medium bodied, but with excellent acidity and freshness. A slightly reduced nose but the palate shows well the cherry, plum, cranberry, cinnamon, and iron.

Dec 20th, 2015
Daniel Eros Carnio

Good intensity on the nose with a fair complexity. In the mouth well balanced with refined tannins and a long length. Silky texture

Good intensity on the nose with a fair complexity. In the mouth well balanced with refined tannins and a long length. Silky texture

Nov 16th, 2014
Big Wave Dave

86% Tempranillo. much bigger than the 2018. Expressive nose. Tannins are still prominent but the red fruit stands up to the structural elements.

86% Tempranillo. much bigger than the 2018. Expressive nose. Tannins are still prominent but the red fruit stands up to the structural elements.

Sep 1st, 2023
Thorstein Boxaspen

Nyttårsaften 2017. Olav trodde han hadde kjøpt den i San Sebastian.

Nyttårsaften 2017. Olav trodde han hadde kjøpt den i San Sebastian.

Jan 1st, 2018
Emily Biskup

Needed lots of time to open. Once it did WOW yummy . Nice dry oaky finish . Wet on the palate. Black licorice , coffee . Stands up so well with strong flavours in Foods

Needed lots of time to open. Once it did WOW yummy . Nice dry oaky finish . Wet on the palate. Black licorice , coffee . Stands up so well with strong flavours in Foods

Sep 20th, 2017
Jean-Philip Journeault

2007

Sep 10th, 2017
Richard Lerner

Nice classic rioja

Nice classic rioja

May 17th, 2017
CWK
9.8

At case irene in baqueira as part of the tasting menu... amazing rioja. Well rounded with oaky finish. Order for home

At case irene in baqueira as part of the tasting menu... amazing rioja. Well rounded with oaky finish. Order for home

Mar 9th, 2017
Ana Escudero

Beautiful fruit and spice overlaid by game and eucalyptus coming from age and barrel. Great length and spice spice spice on the palate with a taste of herbs. it was perhaps not as elegant as I would have hoped but it is a bold great rioja.

Beautiful fruit and spice overlaid by game and eucalyptus coming from age and barrel. Great length and spice spice spice on the palate with a taste of herbs. it was perhaps not as elegant as I would have hoped but it is a bold great rioja.

Feb 4th, 2017