Bodegas Lleiroso’s most emblematic wine is its Reserva. It is a wine with its own identity, the flagship of Bodegas Lleiroso.

• Available 6 Bottles per case
• Region Ribera del Duero

 

Tasting Notes

• Colour: ruby-red colour, middle layer, deep-red trim.
• Nose: intense, toasted oak and ripe red fruit well integrated with the wood. Balsamic, leather and liquorice notes.
• Palate: noble and ripe tannins. Great palate. Medium bodied, with good acidity and volume. Long aftertaste. A wine that is enjoyed today and can be saved for the future, as it will have very good performance in bottle.
• Serving temperature: 18ºC / 64,4ºF

• Grape variety: 100% Tempranillo.
• Production: 10,000 bottles
• Soil: clayey-calcareous.
• Output: 3 to 4 tonnes por hectare.
• Vineyard age: More than 50 years.
• Grape harvest: second week of October.
• Ageing: 12 months in new Allier French oak barrels for 18 months, and bottle-aged a further 24 months.

• Hand-harvested and hand sorted.
• Macerated must and skin at low temperature for five days.
• Controlled fermentation at temperature not exceeding 30°C in conical stainless steel tanks with daily punch downs every 3 hours.
• Spontaneous malolactic fermentation controlled at 22°C after alcoholic fermentation in tank.

 

• San Francisco International Wine Competition: Lleiroso Reserva 2009  received Gold Medals, and Lleiroso Reserva 2011 made his presence known with a Bronze Medal.
• 94 points, 2009 Wine Spectator
• 94 pts, Guía de Vinos Gourmets 2014
• SILVER MEDAL (DO 2011)  LA Int’l Wine Competition 2015
• GOLD MEDAL, Vinalies 2015 
• GOLD Tempranillo 2009 / SILVER Tempranillo 2011, Tempranillos al Mundo
• GOLD, Bacchus 2009
• SILVER Medal, Vinalies 2009
• GOLD MEDAL / 90 pts -San Francisco International Wine Competition 2011