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Viña Sastre Crianza

2016 / 750 ml.

JS9292 pts. - JamesSuckling.com - Friday, July 26, 2019
This has a very rich and vibrant feel with ultra-ripe aromas that are set amid some meaty nuances, as well as a slightly tarry edge. The palate has a sleek, long and really saturated feel with essence-like, ripe-plum flavors. Drink or hold.
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Anza Rioja

2020 / 750 ml.

RP9494 pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 14th Jul 2022
There are tender and subtle aromas in the 2020 Anza, yes, flowers, berries and herbs but also something reminiscent of very soft marzipan. The wine is incredibly elegant and subtle, very young, tender and delicate, still a baby; it’s from a year when he got higher yields and the grapes ripened thoroughly, and the wines are ripe but without excess. It has 13.5% alcohol and soft, integrated acidity; it matured in 500-liter and oak foudre for 10 months. This should get rid of its baby fat with a little more time in bottle. 13,000 bottles were filled in August 2021. (Luis Gutiérrez)
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Spain | Rioja

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RP9191 pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 30th Oct 2020
The creamy 2014 Señorío de P. Peciña Reserva has abundant balsamic notes, hints of incense and cigar ash and plenty of spices and a smoky touch combined with candied fruit and a sharp mouthfeel, like the élevage of three years in used American oak barrels was a bit rough with the more delicate fruit from 2014. 42,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2018. It’s ready now, and it’s not a Reserva for the very long haul. (Luis Gutiérrez)
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Spain | Rioja

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JC Vizcarra

2019 / 750 ml.

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Spain | Ribera del Duero

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JS9595 pts. - JamesSuckling.com - Wednesday, February 9, 2022
A very complex, aged Rioja with savory plums, mushrooms, bark, red earth, orange peel and cedar. Quite juicy, fresh and bright on the palate with a tangy, zesty palate, full of berries and oranges. Firm, long and complex with a mouthwatering finish. Such a traditional taste! Drink now or hold.
RP92+92+ pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 14th Jul 2022
2011 was a warmer and riper year, but there’s not a huge difference between the 2011 Viña Bosconia Reserva and the 2010; this is perhaps mellower, with more integrated acidity. It’s 13.5% alcohol with a pH of 3.3 and 6.7 grams of acidity measured in tartaric acid per liter, and it fermented in the 144-year-old oak vats and matured in used American oak barrels for five years. 88,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2018. (Luis Gutiérrez)
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Marqués de Murrieta Reserva

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2018 / 750 ml.

RP9494 pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 14th Jul 2022
The flagship red 2018 Rioja Reserva was produced with a blend of 86% Tempranillo, 8% Graciano, 4% Mazuelo (a.k.a. Cariñena) and 2% Garnacha selected from their 300 hectares of vineyards that exemplifies the character of the vintage and the place. 2018 was a year with good rain and a cool season that resulted in a late harvest, which started on October 1 and was slow and delivered grapes with good freshness. Each variety and plot fermented separately in stainless steel. and the wines aged separately in American oak barrels for 21 months and then settled in concrete until bottling. It follows the path of the 2016, where I noticed a change that is taken further in this, controlling the power and increasing the freshness. It’s very aromatic, a year completely different from the 2017; it has less structure and more freshness and subtler balance and enough oomph, concentration and power neatly compensated by freshness. I believe 2018 was a very good vintage to implement this change. It’s perfumed, fresh, elegant and medium-bodied, with a velvety texture. Superb! 960,000 bottles produced. (Luis Gutiérrez)
JS9494 pts. - JamesSuckling.com - Friday, September 9, 2022
Savory cured-meat, tobacco and grilled-spice notes to the bright plum, red-date, cherry and green-olive aromas. Quite a juicy, medium-bodied Rioja with fresh and extremely silky tannins caressing the zesty orange and crunchy red-berry flavors. Nuanced, fluid and effortlessly drinkable. Long and extremely elegant. A vintage that highlights layering and freshness, rather than power and depth. 86% tempranillo, 8% graciano, 4% mazuelo and 2% garnacha. Delicious now, but will hold well.
SP9191 pts. - Wine Spectator - Oct 15, 2022
Fresh and elegant, with a mouthful of ripe, crushed cherry and red currant fruit, this medium-bodied red is framed by crisp tannins and a minerally underpinning. Enticing hints of eucalyptus, dried fig and cigar box play on the finish. Tempranillo, Graciano, Mazuelo and Garnacha Tinta. Drink now through 2028. 80,000 cases made, 14,000 cases imported. (Alison Napjus)
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Spain | Ribera del Duero

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JS9595 pts. - JamesSuckling.com - Sunday, November 20, 2022
Savory and complex with dried orange peel, cedar and plenty of sweet spices, walnuts, caramel, dried mushrooms and pine needles. Shows maturity here, with a medium body and superb freshness. Incredibly long finish with lots of truffle and walnut. Lasts over a minute. Very complete now, but you can still hold it. (James Suckling)
RP94+94+ pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 14th Jul 2022
The 2016 Viña Ardanza Reserva was produced with 80% Tempranillo and 20% Garnacha that matured in used American oak barrels for three years, where it was hand-racked from barrel to barrel six times in the case of Tempranillo and five times for the Garnacha, as it had a slightly shorter élevage of 30 months. Against all odds, I found the 2016 to be fresher than the 2015 and less developed, despite the fact that winemaker Julio Sáenz told me he considers it a warmer year. But I have found many wines I like in 2016, and the wine feels very clean and quite harmonious, younger and less developed, with more primary notes and a velvety mouthfeel. 600,000 bottles produced. The wine was bottled in June 2020. (Luis Gutiérrez)
SP9393 pts. - Wine Spectator - Jul 31, 2023
An intriguing red, with steeped raspberry, balsamico, dried black cherry, iron and iodine aromas and flavors. Silky on the palate and finely knit, this is a rich, medium-bodied red that offers supple tannins. A lovely example of Rioja in a more traditional style, this should open well in the decanter or with time in the cellar. Tempranillo and Garnacha. Best from 2025 through 2033. 50,000 cases made, 9,000 cases imported. (Alison Napjus)
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RP9595 pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 31st Jan 2023
The juicy, velvety and aromatic red 2020 Pícaro del Águila Tinto is fine-boned and quite faithfully represents what they want to express with this cuvée; it’s very tasty and has some chalkiness (perhaps through less ripeness than in years like 2018) with 14% alcohol and mellow acidity. The nose reveals some Côte-Rôtie-like notes of smoked meat and violets. 2020 delivered a good crop of healthy grapes that produced the finest wine to date for this bottling. This is superb, elegant and powerful, with everything in place (seems to be the signature of 2020) and perfectly integrated oak. 71,382 bottles and 1,979 magnums produced. It was bottled in September 2021. (Luis Gutiérrez)
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RP9393 pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 31st Jan 2023
The red blend 2019 Cyclo was produced with Tempranillo and some 10% between Garnacha, Cariñena, Viura and Albillo. It fermented with full clusters in concrete and indigenous yeasts, foot trodden, and it matured in oak barrels. It’s quite ripe and heady at 15% alcohol with generous oak, spice and smoke and quite a lot of tannin. It’s still tannic. Give it some more time. 10,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2021. (Luis Gutiérrez)
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Muga Reserva

2019 / 750 ml.

JS9494 pts. - JamesSuckling.com - Friday, September 9, 2022
This is a structured and linear Muga Reserva with a creamy and fine-tannined backbone and graphite, cherry, plum and black-truffle character. Medium-bodied, racy and beautiful. 70% tempranillo, 20% grenache and 10% mazuelo and graciano. Delicious now, but will age beautifully in the cellar. (James Suckling)
RP9494 pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 14th Jul 2022
The 2019 Reserva, sold as Crianza in Spain, comes from a dry and warm year with low yields and concentrated wines. The grapes from the Haro zone, the four from Rioja, Tempranillo, Garnacha Tinta, Mazuelo and Graciano fermented destemmed and lightly crushed in oak vats with indigenous yeasts, and 80% of the volume matured in French oak and the rest in Centro European and American oak, 20% of them new, for 22 months, during which time the wine was racked every eight to nine months. This is serious and young but balanced, nuanced and complex. They are shortening the time in oak, as they feel they have better and younger barrels and think the wines need less time in oak and more time in bottle. This is very Muga, very Rioja and very good. They produced an impressive 960,000 bottles and 18,000 magnums of this. There is only one master blend that is bottled at different times. I tasted a bottle that was filled in April 2022 (because of the lack of availability of bottles!). (Luis Gutiérrez)
WE9292 pts. - Wine Enthusiast - 11/1/2023
This deep-hued wine has a bouquet of black plum, cinnamon stick and citrus zest. Black cherry, pomegranate, milk chocolate, violet, caramel and eucalyptus flavors are wrapped in a sheath of velvety tannins that endure on the tongue and gums with a light floral note. (Mike DeSimone)
SP9191 pts. - Wine Spectator - May 6, 2024
A fragrant red, with enticing tobacco, floral and cocoa powder accents to the flavors of plum sauce, crushed mulberry, tangerine peel and red licorice. This is fresh and focused, integrating chalky tannins. Spiced finish. Tempranillo, Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano. Best from 2025 through 2035. 60,000 cases made, 15,000 cases imported. (Alison Napjus)
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JS9595 pts. - JamesSuckling.com - Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Fresh and demure nose with lots of cocoa powder, blackcurrants, blackberries and a hint of cigar and charcoal. Excellent depth and class here with a very juicy center palate. Medium to full body with a long and layered finish. Drink or hold. (Zekun Shuai)
RP9595 pts. - Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate - 29th Feb 2024
The subtle and harmonious 2019 Selección Especial reflects a very complete and good vintage. It has to be one of the finest vintages for this wine. 2019 is a powerful vintage with balance and freshness. The grapes ripened thoroughly and developed a full set of aromas and flavors. It’s complex and nuanced, with abundant, fine-grained tannins and a long, dry and tasty finish. Selección applies to the vineyards but also the barrels and everything that contributes to this wine; it’s not only a selection of lots, which was the case before the 1994 vintage. 274,992 bottles produced. It was bottled between April and June 2022 after 26 months in barrel. (Luis Gutiérrez)
SP9292 pts. - Wine Spectator - Jul 31, 2024
Savory aromas of forest floor, leather and tar transition to reveal a creamy core of crushed mulberry, cherry and wild strawberry fruit, red licorice and singed orange peel flavors. Shows muscle and focus, but this is elegant overall, marrying sculpted tannins with layers of flavor and length. Tempranillo, Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano. Drink now through 2034. 20,000 cases made, 6,000 cases imported. (Alison Napjus)
WE9090 pts. - Wine Enthusiast - 11/1/2023
Deep garnet to the eye, this wine has a nose of blackberry, green bell pepper and cedar chest. It is spicy at first sip, offering notes of eucalyptus, menthol and clove. Forceful tannins provide a backdrop for these spicy notes plus blackberry, black cherry, dark chocolate, violet and orange zest flavors that sail into a floral and cool herb finish. (Mike DeSimone)
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Why Choose Tempranillo Wines?

Tempranillo, a strong Spanish grape, is central to the wine-making of Spain's renowned Ribera del Duero and Rioja regions. Known for its rich taste and complex flavors, Tempranillo wines are filled with notes of berries, tobacco, and leather, making them great choices for rich meals. You can enjoy premium quality without spending more than $40. Our selected range includes respected brands like Viña Sastre, Marqués de Murrieta, and Muga. These wines guarantee both high quality and good value. Whether hosting a dinner or relaxing at home, these wines will enhance the occasion.

Tips for Enjoying Your Tempranillo Wines

When enjoying Tempranillo wines, it's best to serve them at room temperature, about 64°F, to fully enjoy their complex flavors and aromas. Tempranillo goes well with hearty foods like roasted meats, stews, and aged cheeses, which enhance the taste of both the wine and the meal. For an authentic Spanish touch, pair it with tapas such as chorizo or manchego cheese. To fully appreciate the wine, sip it slowly and notice the different flavors and nuances.

Frequently Asked Questions About Tempranillo Wines Under $40

Can I find a good Tempranillo wine under $40?

Absolutely! Tempranillo, a staple in Spanish winemaking, offers excellent options under $40. These wines often showcase a delightful mix of flavors, including ripe berries, plum, and tobacco, all without breaking the bank. Our curated selection ensures you can enjoy high-quality Tempranillo at a reasonable price.

How does the flavor profile of Tempranillo under $40 compare to more expensive Tempranillo wines?

While pricier Tempranillos might feature more intricate layers of flavor and aging potential, the under $40 range still delivers a robust experience. Expect wines that provide a rich taste with a pleasant balance of fruitiness and oak influence, making them both satisfying and versatile for various food pairings.

Are there any highly rated Tempranillo wines available for under $40?

Yes, there are! Surprisingly, several Tempranillo wines priced under $40 have earned high ratings for their quality and overall drinking experience. These selections include offerings from renowned regions and producers, proving that great wine doesn't always come with a high price tag.