Valenciso Rioja Reserva 2019 NO20230823 and lingers on the palate

and lingers on the palate

the Hossfeld Vineyard yields small

Elevated by a bouquet of spices such as aniseed and cardamom

and the oldest from 2010

Valenciso Rioja Reserva 2019 NO20230823 and lingers on the palateFor years, Valenciso made exactly one wine. Luis Valentin and Carmen Enciso, both Rioja natives with long careers in the region behind them, founded the estate for the 1998 vintage and staked everything on a single Reserva. This 2019 comes from seventeen organically managed plots scattered across Rioja Alta villages including Villalba, Gimileo, Rodezno, Briones and Haro, all Tempranillo, hand harvested, fermented with indigenous yeasts in concrete,