2015 Martelo, Reserva, Torre de Oña, Rioja, Spain

Description

Finca Martelo is a single-plot wine from famed producer La Rioja Alta. It’s matured in a mix of French and American oak barrels for 24 months. The wine shows beautifully intense and perfumed aromas of raspberry coulis, soft red plum and cranberry, with subtle notes of violet and vanilla. The palate has a darker, richer character, with juicy black cherry, chocolate and menthol. This is an extremely high-quality Rioja that will cellar for at least another 10 years. Drink now to 2031.

Stuart Fyfe, Assistant Wine Advisor Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd (June 2021)

Colour Red

Sweetness Dry

Vintage 2015

Maturity Ready - youthful

Grape List Tempranillo

Body Medium Bodied

Producer Bodega Torre de Oña

Critics reviews

James Suckling 92/100

A rich, fruity red with lots of ripe fruit that verges on being jammy. A little old-school, but fruity and delicious. Full body. Firm tannins give it form. Drink after 2021.james_suckling, jamessuckling_com (April 2021)

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Apr 2021)

Josh Raynolds 93/100

Glistening violet. Potent, mineral- and smoke-accented dark berry, cherry cola and floral scents show excellent clarity and spicy lift. Lively and seamless in texture, offering sweet black raspberry, cherry preserve and boysenberry flavors and hints of spicecake and candied rose. Closes on an appealingly sweet note, with sneaky, slow-mounting tannins and strong, smoky persistence.Drink 2023 - 2032josh_raynolds, Vinous.com.com (Apr 2021)

Josh Raynolds, Vinous.com (Apr 2021)

Luis Gutiérrez 94+/100

I found a very complete 2015 Finca Martelo that followed the style and the quality path of the previous vintages. The release of this wine was an important milestone for Torre de Oña, where they look for the typicity of Rioja Alavesa through a blend of old-vine Tempranillo with 6% other varieties (Mazuelo, Garnacha and even white Viura). 2015 was a healthy harvest, and the wine shows a nice combination of power and elegance. It's clean and modern but with a traditional twist, some developed aromas and very fine chalky tannins from the limestone-rich soils. 80,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2019.Drink 2020 - 2032Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate (Oct 2020)

Luis Gutiérrez, RobertParker.com (Oct 2020)

Tim Atkin MW 94/100

This is the third vintage of Finca Martelo, made with grapes from the highest part of the farm in Páganos. Marrying Tempranillo with 5% Mazuelo, Garnacha and Viura, all of them picked at the same time, it's a fresh, floral, focused wine from a hot vintage with fine oak, chalky freshness and layered rose petal and red berry flavours.Tim Atkin MW, timatkin.com

Tim Atkin MW, timatkin.com

About this wine

Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

A high quality red wine grape that is grown all over Spain except in the hot South - it is known as Tinto Fino in Ribera del Duero, Cencibel in La Mancha and Valdepenas and Ull de Llebre in Catalonia. Its spiritual home is in Rioja and Navarra where it constitutes around 70% of most red blends.

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