{"id":3280,"date":"2011-08-16T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2011-08-16T11:03:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:03:59","slug":"baron-de-leys-graciano-and-maturana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/spain\/baron-de-leys-graciano-and-maturana","title":{"rendered":"Baron de Ley&#8217;s Graciano and Maturana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0747.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3287\" title=\"baron de ley \" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0747.jpg\" alt=\"baron de ley maturana graciano\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following on from my recent report of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/wineblog\/spain\/new-varieties-in-rioja\">new varieties in Rioja<\/a>, I was pleased to see that Tesco are now stocking two wines from Rioja producer Baron de Ley&#8217;s new Varietales range. They consist of a Maturana and a Graciano, and both are competitively priced at \u00a38.99.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: both might have been slightly better had they not been subjected to the usual punishing Rioja barrel regime (too long in American oak, without topping up, resulting in an oxidative environment with an oak imprint that masks the fruit like clumsy make up to a face). But they&#8217;re still pretty smart wines for this price point. I particularly liked the Graciano, which I think is a very interesting variety.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baron de Ley Varietales Maturana 2009 Rioja<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sweet ripe berry fruits nose with some notes of caramel and herbs, as well as vanilla and wood spice. The palate is dense, ripe, spicy and tannic with significant oak impact. It&#8217;s a richly fruited wine, though, with real impact. 88\/100<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baron de Ley Varietales Graciano 2009 Rioja<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lovely nose of fresh, bright red fruits with a subtle, complex warm herby character. The palate is bright and fresh with nice tannic grip and good acidity, showing red fruits with a bit of oak in the background. Nicely complex and expressive. 90\/100<\/p>\n<p>Find these wines with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from my recent report of new varieties in Rioja, I was pleased to see that Tesco are now stocking two wines from Rioja producer Baron de Ley&#8217;s new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,40],"tags":[402,371],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rioja","category-spain","tag-rioja","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}