Sierra Cantabria Rioja Reserva 2017 NO20231018 spices and white fruit

spices and white fruit

Exuberant and expressive

The palate is beautifully structured

with tonic water

others are more chalky

Sierra Cantabria Rioja Reserva 2017 NO20231018 spices and white fruitReserva on a Rioja label too often means the fruit got sanded down by years in barrel. Sierra Cantabria's version argues otherwise. The Eguren family farms in San Vicente de la Sonsierra, on the high, cool northern edge of Rioja beneath the Cantabrian mountains, and this is all Tempranillo, aged around eighteen months in a mix of French and American oak. That is enough to add spice and structure without burying the vineyard. 2017 was the frost year,