2020 La Rioja Alta S.A. Vina Alberdi Reserva Rioja DOCa, Spain HALF CASE Château Lagrange dark chocolate and licorice

dark chocolate and licorice

It is a red that is halfway between maturity and sweetness and freshness and tension

or let it open up in the glass (or

making the mouth water with lemon zestiness and racy fun

The 2020 Barbaresco Martinenga is superb

2020 La Rioja Alta S.A. Vina Alberdi Reserva Rioja DOCa, Spain HALF CASE Château Lagrange dark chocolate and licoriceA classical, typical Rioja Alta red with elegant notes of vanilla, coconut, smoked spices and strawberries. Refined and suave, with fine tannins and a long, creamy finish. Juicy and elegant. Really approachable now, but give it two more years to get more mushroom complexity. James Suckling