I love a well made, well priced, American oaked, traditional style Rioja, and this delicious bottle of Señorío de P. Peciña checks all the boxes. Classic red cherries, red apple skins, spicy plums, savory dried herbs, dried dill, and soft coconut. Tasty, expressive, poised, and a nice structure. ¡Salud!

This wine does everything that you want a classic Rioja to do. You pop the cork, and it hits you immediately. This is an oaky, earthy, leathery, spicy Rioja. It smells so good! There is so much depth and complexity to this wine aromatically. You could, and I did, take over a minute teasing apart this wine's aromatics. I love wines that make me engage with them, this is one of those wines. What makes this wine even better is the taste. This is a fantastic red wine. The fruit is ripe, there is concentration, and it does that neat trick of somehow changing the fruit tones on the palate, as well as the direction of the wine. This is a very straight forward red, it is built linearly like most Cabernet based wines, and the fruit is that classic dark cherry Tempranillo fruit. However, on the mid palate the wine changes subtly, the fruit darkens, becoming more plum and berries, and the wine broadens and somehow feels deeper too. However, on the finish it brightens up again, it focuses more on those red fruits and speaks to the limestone rich clay soils of the region. This is not a straightforward wine, but it is not overly complicated either. It is delicious and complex. It delivers the spice, the leather, the oak and that old-world earthiness but the fruit is ripe, pure and persisting. It is hard not to get fired up about Rioja when enjoying a wine like this.

I really cannot think of the last time when I had a Pecina Rioja that I didn't like or thought was merely ok. This newest release is full of black raspberry and cherry fruit. There are scents of cedar and dried herbs. It is clean and rather tart on the palate, initially and with a bit of air, fleshes out nicely with richer red fruits, rye seed, dried orange peel and tobacco. Nicely rich with a long, more classically styled finish that is clean and tart. The absolute best of both world styles!