Longoria Clover Creek Vineyard Tempranillo (Santa Ynez Valley)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Red

Uva

Tempranillo

País

United States

Região

Santa Ynez Valley · Central Coast

Denominação

Santa Ynez Valley

Corpo

medium

Acidez

medium

Tanino

medium

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 200987 pts

  Pinot Noir specialist Rick Longoria continues to tackle this difficult variety, which may be the hardest to master in California. His results are inconsistent. The '09 is a very good wine, bone dry and dusty, with tobacco and cherry flavors.

• 200884 pts

  A decent but clumsy wine, showing the pitfalls of this variety in California. It's very dry and silky in texture, but hot in alcohol, and there's a burnt taste to the cherry and oak flavors. Not going anywhere.

• 200793 pts

  One of the best California Tempranillos of this or any vintage, Longoria's '07 establishes a new benchmark for the variety. Finally we have a dry, crisp and complex Tempranillo, filled with cherry, red currant, tobacco, spice, vanilla and sandalwood flavors, wrapped into polishe…