Made with the Graciano grape rather than the usual Temperillo grape , this Rioja is pretty good, excellent I would say.

There a black fruit, chocolate and coffee aroma mix that is added to in the taste department with red fruit and oak notes. Its a full bodied, smooth with firm, but well intergrate tannins and is excellently pair with red meat or in front of the fire just being sipped.

At over £25 a bottle is not cheap but I think it is justified.

Altos R Pigeage, Graciano, 2014, Rioja, Spain