Robert Parker Wine Advocate-Bewertung Jahrgang 2016:

2016 Sierra Cantabria • El Bosque
Issue 243 End of June 2019, The Wine Advocate, 28th Jun 2019
Rating: 96
Release Price: $120
Drink Date: 2019 - 2032

2016 was a cool and slow-ripening year, and the 2016 El Bosque reflects those qualities, combining power and elegance. It's Tempranillo from only one vineyard, planted in 1973. It fermented in new French and central European oak barrels for 18 months. It's a serious and structured wine that has a subtle nose, with integrated oak, combining power and elegance. It has very good freshness, and it has the floral and red fruit character of the 2016 vintage. This wine should have a long life in bottle. I love the 2016 vintage here. 5,000 bottles were filled in July 2018.

Übersetzung: 2016 war ein kühles Jahr mit langsamer Fruchtreife und der El Bosque spiegelt diese Qualitäten wider und kombiniert Kraft und Eleganz. Es ist Tempranillo von nur einem Weinberg, der 1973 gepflanzt wurde. Er wurde 18 Monate in neuen französischen und mitteleuropäischen Eichenholzfässern vergoren und ausgebaut. Es ist ein seriöser und strukturierter Wein, der eine subtile Nase mit integrierter Eiche hat und Kraft und Eleganz verbindet. Er hat eine sehr gute Frische und den floralen und roten Fruchtcharakter des Jahrgangs 2016. Dieser Wein sollte eine lange Haltbarkeit in der Flasche haben. Ich liebe den Jahrgang 2016 hier. Im Juli 2018 wurden 5.000 Flaschen abgefüllt.

Sierra Cantabria is the mother winery of all the Eguren family wineries in Rioja. They produce 600,000 bottles per vintage.

I tasted a wide range of wines, mostly from good to very good vintages. After the challenging 2013 and 2014, 2015 was a warm vintage, but the wines are developing much better than expected—they have weight, but they also have freshness. 2016 seems to be a truly spectacular year that managed to provide quantity, and quality and perhaps the higher yields produced lighter wines that are very aromatic and elegant and come through as very expressive. 2017 was decimated by frost, and quantities are very low. The rest of the year was warm and dry, with a very early harvest from a fast ripening. 2018 is more in line with 2016, fresher and with higher yields, but perhaps a little lighter and without the elegance and class of the 2016s.

I saw better integration of the oak in most of the wines and more differentiation between wines. Marcos Eguren told me that in the last few years they have changed the way they toast their barrels, with a very long and softer toast, more like a barrique for white. It seems to work. The one wine that is an exception is the second edition of the CVC, a blend in 2006, 2008 and 2011 that I found too oaky to be recommended (not to mention the price).

Fachpressebewertungen Jahrgang 2016:

99/100 Punkte Guía Proensa

98/100 Punkte Guía Gourmets

98/100 Punkte El País

97/100 Punkte Guía Peñín

95/100 Punkte James Suckling: The depth and focus to this is so unique with fantastic blackberries, blueberries and licorice. Full body. Powerful and intense. This needs four to five years to soften and open.

94/100 Punkte Tim Atkin

Fachpressebewertungen Jahrgang 2015:
99/100 Punkte Guía Proensa
98/100 Punkte Guía de Vinos Gourmets
96/100 Punkte Guía Peñin
95/100 Punkte Wine Spectator
94/100 Punkte Tim Atkin
17,5/20 Punkte Weinwisser
92/100 Punkte James Suckling

Fachpressebewertungen Jahrgang 2014:
99/100 Punkte Guía de Vinos Gourmets
97/100 Punkte Guía Proensa
96/100 Punkte Guía Peñin
95/100 Punkte Tim Atkin
93/100 Punkte Wine Spectator
93/100 Punkte Decanter

Fachpressebewertungen Jahrgang 2013:
98/100 Punkte Guía de Vinos Gourmets
97/100 Punkte Guía Proensa
95/100 Punkte Guía Peñin
93/100 Punkte WineEnthusiast

Fachpressebewertungen Jahrgang 2012:
19/20 Punkte Weinwisser
18/20 Punkte Jancis Robinson
97/100 Punkte Guía Proensa
96/100 Punkte Guía Peñin