2019 Rioja Gran Reserva, Bodegas Ondarre Great Wines while twelve months in large

while twelve months in large French oak foudres brings texture without blurring the wine’s edges

then moves into fresh mint

bringing out savoury notes of mushroom broth

with a richness of fruit and a subtle hint of cocoa which is supported by a round

the powerhouse grapes of Puglia

2019 Rioja Gran Reserva, Bodegas Ondarre Great Wines while twelve months in largeThe Velvet Hour in Rioja Bodegas Ondarre makes exceptional value Rioja it amazes us every time we drink their wines, how they can make wines of quality for these prices! This is Rioja with its jacket off, fire lit and stories ready. Warm, generous and beautifully mellow, it opens with red cherry, baked plum and dried fig, then drifts into vanilla, cedar, tobacco, leather and sweet spice. There is that unmistakable Gran Reserva calm here, the sense of