2015 La Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza Rioja Reserva United States and is a little old

and is a little old school in the best possible way

While it's sweet and caresses the focused mid-palate there's no heaviness and it finishes clean with a lovely burst of freshness

Swaths of tannin wrap it all together in style

and sheer deliciousness

acacia flowers

2015 La Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza Rioja Reserva United States and is a little old94 points, Vinous"Deep magenta. An intensely perfumed bouquet evokes ripe black raspberry, cherry cola, potpourri, tobacco and exotic spices, plus a smoky mineral flourish. Sweet and broad in the mouth, offering lush red and blue fruit, spicecake, mocha and coconut flavors that firm up on the back half. Finishes extremely long and spicy, with resonating florality, gently chewy tannins and lingering oak spice notes." Josh Raynolds