2015 | Macán | Clasico

This 2015 second wine has an alluring chocolate and cherry nose with impressively integrated spicy oak. The palate has firm tannins in the mid-palate. Very plush, detailed and attractive, long and balanced. Big plum flavor. Very fresh.

Reviews:

• Wine Enthusiast: Heavy oak gives this warm-year Tempranillo a nose defined by baked black fruits, vanilla, cinnamon and wood grain. The palate is sappy and huge, a heavyweight with modest finesse. Roasted blackberry and cassis flavors sit atop oaky bedding, while this feels jammy and tannic on a beefy finish.

• James Suckling: This 2015 second wine has an alluring chocolate and cherry nose with impressively integrated spicy oak. The palate has firm tannins in the mid-palate. Very plush, detailed and attractive, long and balanced. Big plum flavor. Very fresh.

Producer Information

Macán is a well-regarded wine producer based just east of the town of Samaniego in the Rioja Alavesa region of northeastern Spain. A joint venture established by Vega-Sicilia and Benjamin de Rothschild (of Bordeaux's Château Clarke), Macán produces a small range of labels based solely on the Tempranillo variety. Two wines are produced under the Macán label, preserving (in the words of Vega-Sicilia) "the Bordeaux tradition to produce a first and second wine". Both are 100 percent Tempranillo with Macán the "grand vin" and Macán Clásico the second wine. The first wines under the two labels were produced in 2009 with the winery constructed in 2016. Over the years, the project has acquired vineyard plots across Rioja Alta and Alavesa and vineyard holdings now total around 120 hectares, predominantly around San Vicente de la Sonsierra in Rioja Alta, some 10km (six miles) east of the winery.

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