Bodegas Faustino Faustino V, Reserva 2018 (0,75 L )

With the Bodegas Faustino V Reserva a first-class red wine comes into the wine glass. It offers a wonderfully bright, ruby red colour. If one tilts the glass a little, a transition of the wine colour towards garnet red is recognisable at the edges of this barrel-aged wine. To the nose, this Bodegas Faustino red wine presents all manner of blackcurrant, rum pot, blueberry, wild berry jam and plum marmalade. As if that wasn't already impressive, the aging in large wooden barrels adds other flavors like toasted hazelnut, roasted almond and whole-nut chocolate.

On the palate, the V Reserva from Bodegas Faustino opens wonderfully aromatic, fruit-driven and balanced. In the finish, this mature red wine from the wine-growing region of La Rioja finally inspires with beautiful length. There are again hints of blackcurrant and rum pot.

Vinification

Mazuelo and Tempranillo grapes are the starting point for the first-class and wonderfully balanced cuvée V Reserva from Bodegas Faustino. After the grape harvest, the grapes are quickly taken to the press house. Here they are sorted and carefully crushed. Fermentation then takes place in large wood at controlled temperatures. After fermentation, the V Reserva is aged for 18 months in French oak barrels. The barrel aging is followed by a long bottle aging, which makes this red wine even more complex.

Food recommendation

Drink this red wine from Spain ideally tempered at 15 - 18°C as an accompaniment to ossobuco, roasted calf's liver with apples, onions and balsamic vinegar sauce or braised chicken in red wine.