Altos de Rioja, a tall drink of regional tempranillo from vines in the 20-40 year-old range in Ellvilar de Álava....

This is a tidy, typical mid-weight Rioja with all the right notes of nicely coalesced cherry jam, cedar, woodsy...

Maturing and woody, wooly-reductive and DMS-inflected Rioja here (wet wood, roasted corn), though the palate picks up...