2001 Marques de Vitoria Rioja Reserva has an intense and developing nose, The soft French oak is well integrated with cherries, cedar, vanilla, with soft balanced tannins.

Producer: Marques de Vitoria is a family owned bodega sourcing grapes from Alavesa, Spain.

Style: Full-bodied with good chunky tannins that go down well with a rich hearty meal. You can tell these wines have seen oak by the toasty, vanilla aromas as opposed to full-on fruit.

Intense cherry red with a garnet rim. Notes of ripe wood berries on the nose, stewed fruit and some hints of coffee and cocoa. Meaty and tasty in the mouth, with ripe fruit, sweet tannins and a toasty background.

"Truffled, with complex fruit aromas." Wine Magazine