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2020 Macán Clásico, Bodegas Benjamin de Rothschild & Vega Sicilia, Rioja, Spain
- Red
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- Tempranillo
Ready - youthful
(Drink 2025 - 2039)
- Shuai Zekun
- 93/100
- Tim Atkin MW
- 94/100
- Luis Gutiérrez
- 94/100
Product: 20201215124
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Description
The 2020 Macán Clásico has an incredibly elegant nose of red and black cherries along with a fine touch of sweet, cedar spice. The aromas are so measured; nothing feels heavy yet the concentration and focus is clear. The palate immediately gives the impression of cool fruit with just-picked, ripe raspberries and blackberries in abundance.
The fruit is so juicy and all held in suspension with a lovely stoney purity coming through along with a summer pudding refreshment. The tannins are Bordelais-level sophisticated; they are granular and linear with precision and freshness. Focused and poised, this comes across as a great fine wine that just happens to come from Rioja.
Catriona Felstead MW, Senior Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Alcohol % 14%
Maturity Ready - youthful
(2025 - 2039)
Grape List Tempranillo
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Bodegas Rothschild & Vega Sicilia
Critics reviews
Shuai Zekun 93/100
Black olives and a hint of black bean puree to the fresh black cherries, damsons and a hint of mint. Refined, medium-bodied palate with fine, fresh tannins that are present but not grainy. Really elegant and long.
Drinkable now, but will develop well in the next six to seven years.
Tim Atkin MW 94/100
Gonzalo Iturriaga uses Tempranillo grapes from more than 20 parcels in San Vicente de la Sonsierra and Baños de Ebro to make Clásico, Macán's second wine. Aged in 40% new wood, it's a fragrant, precise, chalky red with bramble, plum and blackberry fruit flavours, refined French and American oak and supple tannins. One to drink before the bolder 2019.
Drink 2026 - 2032
Luis Gutiérrez 94/100
The 2020 Macán Clásico was cropped from a more generous yield. The grapes were put in a cold chamber for one night and then underwent a cold soak of three to four days, after which they inoculate the yeasts; in 2020, 25% of the yeasts were their native yeasts. It fermented in stainless steel, and the élevage was 45% in new French oak and 5% in new American oak barrels, 28% in second-use barrels and 22% in stainless steel for one year. The bottled wine has 14% alcohol, a pH of 3.78 and 4.5 grams of acidity tartaric). This is one of the most elegant vintages of this bottling so far. It has showy aromatics with notes of smoky bacon, a bit meaty, and the thing that surprised me more was the velvety texture. It was bottled in August 2022.
There are some changes at the joint venture between Vega Sicilia and Benjamin de Rothschild, like the introduction of Garnacha and Graciano in the blend from the 2020 vintage and the use of 20,000-liter oak foudres from 2021. They like 2020, an elegant year, and a more powerful 2019.
Drink 2024 - 2030