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It's always a very exciting moment when tasting a new vintage of what has quickly become one of the icons from Rioja, especially when it's a great year. The 2021 Las Beatas is super elegant, very shy in the beginning (it was very cold too), subtle, elegant, insinuating and floral, developing notes of orange peel with time in the glass, and it has stunning balance and harmony. It's a field blend of eight or nine local varieties fermented with indigenous yeasts in 3,000-liter open-top oak vats and matured in 1,200-liter foudres for 14 to 16 months. The mouthfeel is silky, elegant, super balanced with very elegant tannins, harmonious, seamless, precise, clean and symmetric. Stunning. 1,521 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2023.
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
Joaquin Hidalgo, Vinous
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The 2021 Las Beatas comes from a restored old-vine parcel in Labastida, Rioja Alavesa and was aged for 14 to 16 months in 1,200-liter foudres . Pale purple in hue—a telltale sign that white varieties are part of the blend—it opens with an intense aromatic profile of dried and fresh flowers, delicate balsamic herbs and a backdrop of sour cherry and red fruit. The palate is refined and layered. It's smooth, juicy and ethereal in texture, with a subtly compact core and fine-grained tannins. Nuanced and expressive, its unpolished edges enhances its authenticity and individuality. This is a true expression of site and one of Rioja’s most distinctive field blends.
About the producer
In 1994, Telmo Rodríguez and Pablo Eguzkiza made their first wine together. This was the beginning of Compañía de Vinos Telmo Rodríguez, their joint project that looks to uncover the “real” Spain, working with old vineyards and indigenous varieties to recover the nation’s vinous heritage.
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Tempranillo, Grenache/ Garnacha
Red
Dry