Rioja Gran Reserva 904, La Rioja Alta, 1997 Bottle or case?:6X75CL but Floris and Victoria chose

but Floris and Victoria chose to preserve it - a decision that’s clearly paid off

it’s as impressive on the eye as it is in the glass

The wines of San Leonardo are more akin to Bordeaux than Bolgheri with their balance and purity and (said the late and greatly respected Italian specialist Nicolas Belfrage) "can have an elegance-cum-depth capable of taking on the best clarets of the world"

and remarkably elegant

Rioja Gran Reserva 904, La Rioja Alta, 1997 Bottle or case?:6X75CL but Floris and Victoria chose904 is La Rioja Alta's icon, a Gran Reserva made only in the finest years and aged with a patience that most modern producers would find frankly alarming. The 1997 spent six years in American oak and several more in bottle before release, which means what arrives in your glass is a wine already deep into its secondary life: dried cherry, tobacco leaf, old leather, and that particular Riojan quality of cedar inflected calm. At nearly 30 years old, this