Gomez Cruzado - El Predilecto Rioja 2021
Price: $24.50
| Producer | Gomez Cruzado |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Rioja |
| Varietal | Red Blend |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Sku | 10961 |
Wow, what a wine! This is a lively, juicy red that is so full of personality. It is an unoaked blend of Garnacha and Tempranillo that beams with bright red berry, red licorice and brambly woodland flavors. It's a wine you will fall in love with immediately. We absolutely adore the purity of flavors.
Wine Advocate: 92 Points
The new young red 2021 El Predilecto recovers Predilecto, which was a historic brand of the house, a wine with less aging than the rest and more fruity character. In this case, they want it to show the fruit expression of the vineyard without oak. They call it the new old concept in Rioja, what the wines used to be before the arrival of the French, pure fruit. It's a blend of 65% Garnacha from Cárdenas and Cordovín and 35% Tempranillo from Samaniego that fermented destemmed but uncrushed (so not exactly a carbonic maceration) with clean and fresh aromas and flavors. It's ripe and hedonistic, with 14.5% alcohol and good freshness. It matured in concrete for five months.
