2016 Torre de Oña, Rioja "Finca Martelo" (Etiket)

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Torre de Ona's topvin er blevet bedre og bedre for hver årgang. Denne 2016 fra en af de allerstørste årgange i området i senere år. Finca Martelo viser det ypperligste fra Torre de Oña's mere end 60 år gamle stokke i højderne i Rioja Alavesa. Martelo 2016 er vinificeret i en kombination af brugte amerikanske og franske barrique og lagret 24 måneder inden tapningen i juni 2020. Givende, rødfrugtig og krydret, viser den hindbær, vanille, knuste rød bær, rødbede, orientalske krydderier, læder og violer i et intenst og ganske køligt udtryk. Saftig og syredreven, fokuseret og med smuk rød og afrundet frugt, er denne kompakte, flot balancerede udgave af Martelo uhyre lovende. Til den pris vi kan tilbyde den til, er det samtidig et fantastisk køb til prisen. Desværre er det den sidste årgang denne pris på nogen måde kan lade sig gøre. Med den næste årgang (2019) relancerer Martelo sig i en anden prisklasse. (-2037+) ****

95 points RobertParker: "The 2016 Finca Martelo comes from one of the longest harvests in their history. It's a blend of Tempranillo with 6% other varieties, Mazuelo, Garnacha and even white Viura intermixed in the field with a south-facing slope on very white soils. The grapes were hand picked, destemmed and crushed, then put through a seven-day cold soak before fermenting (uncrushed) in stainless steel followed by malolactic that took 98 days. The wine matured in used oak barrels, 80% American and 20% French, for 24 months with four traditional rackings. This wine has a separate winery with smaller vats for each of the plots, and the wine was kept in vat for a further six months before it was bottled in June 2020. It has 14.5% alcohol and a pH of 3.57. It has a lively and young color and a very expressive nose (the cold soak and the semi-carbonic maceration), and there is a strong spiciness despite the fact they never use any new oak. It's mellow and round, with glossy tannins and a very gentle mouthfeel, with good complexity and those chalky tannins. This is a young and more modern wine than the range from la Rioja Alta. This is a wine that was developed between 2005 and 2012, and they saw the mix of barrels worked better than a single origin. 80,000 bottles produced."