Telmo Rodriguez • Bodegas Lanzaga Tabuerniga 2018

Über das Weingut Telmo Rodriguez

Telmo Rodriguez bildet zusammen mit Raul Perez das Duo Infernale des spanischen Weinbaus. Diesen beiden Winzern ist zu verdanken, dass in weiten Teilen Spaniens neue Wege bei An- und Ausbau von Weinen eingeschlagen wurde. Während sich Raul Perez im Bierzo austobt, hat Telmo Rodriguez ein wahres Wein-Imperium aufgebaut und kultiviert Wein in nahezu allen Apellationen Spaniens. Und egal wo: Seine Weine gehören immer zu den besten der Region, wenn auch zu den hochpreisigsten. Wenn Sie mehr über den faszinierenden Winzer erfahren wollen, besuchen Sie ihn doch einfach hier.

Über den Wein Tabuerniga 2018

Telmos Weine aus Rioja firmieren unter der Bodegas Lanzaga. Der Las Beatas und der Tabuerniga ragen dabei heraus und gelten als zwei der größten Weine der Rioja. Beide werden aus Einzellagen rund ums Örtchen Labastida in der Rioja Alavesa der Riera del Duero erzeugt.

Im Wine Advocate August 2021 vergab Parkers Verkoster für spanischen Wein, Luis Gutiérrez, die Weltklasse- Note von:

98+/100 Punkte

Der Wortlaut der Lobeshymne lautet:

The 2018 Tabuerniga is from one of the most beautiful vineyards in Rioja, a terraced place that is located at 540 to 630 meters in altitude and is farmed organically. It fermented in open-top oak vats with indigenous yeasts and matured in 1,500-liter oak foudres for 14 to 16 months following the most strict tradition. The wine is superb, subtle, elegant and refined, still a little young and closed but with a sense of harmony, depth and seriousness that puts it among the finest vintages for this wine. The palate is lively and vibrant, with purity and harmony; it's delineated, symmetric and seamless, with a silky palate. This is simply superb and develops further complexity with time in the glass, flowers a touch of meat and blood. This is my go-to wine from the single-vineyard bottlings. 3,924 bottles were filled in May 2020.

I tasted the fine-wine portfolio from Telmo Rodríguez and Pablo Eguzkiza, wines from different regions with a great majority of 2018s, a vintage that was challenging in many places but with very good results. Their viticulture is organic (and has been for a while) and is biodynamic in some places; they are in the process of certifying some of their wines, but they are finding some bureaucratic problems. In Rioja, all of their wines are certified organic. In Galicia (Valdeorras or Riberas del Bibei, as they want to call it), they have their new winery in an old building that they restored, and they have a new wine, probably called Lg. Valbuxan (Lugar de Valbuxan, a place from O Bolo), a red that closes the gap between Gaba do Xil and the single vineyard wines. Falcoeira and O Diviso are in the process of being certified organic. Most of the wines from Gredos, which now carry the DO Cebreros and mention Sierra de Gredos on their labels, were from the 2018 vintage, one of the finest in the zone. The wines showed super elegant and with unnoticeable oak—defined, clean and precise—and they showcase the consolidated new style since the arrival of winemaker Marc Isart.

Drink: 2021 - 2034