López de Haro, Classica Gran Reserva, Rioja, Spain, 2004

Awarded 'Best in Show' at DWWA 2021, this gran reserva is still showing impeccable class and drinking beautifully now. A blend of old-vine Tempranillo from Sonsierra and Garnacha from Alto Najerilla, with 42 months new and used French oak. Complex, perfumed, evolved savoury aromas, with notes of mushroom, damsons, black fruit and baked plums. Harmonious palate with subtly shifting layers of black and red fruit, coffee, spice and tobacco, plus fine tannins and a long, memorable finish.