Yjar 2019
Rioja
Spain, Spain
Regular price£378.77
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 14.0% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: Yes | Drink from: 2023 |
| Biodynamic: Yes | Drink to: 2035 |
| Grapes: Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano, Granegro, Rojal | |
Critic scores
97 RP, 96 VM, 99 JS, 96 LPB, 100 JA, 97 TA, 98 DC
Critic reviews
"The 2019 Yjar is the third vintage of this top-of-the-range wine, which is designed for the international market and sold through the négociant system of Place de Bordeaux. It’s a blend of Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano and other grapes from 3.8 hectares of selected plots from the Remelluri vineyards, which were cropped from a challenging year with frost. This feels young but already very Rioja, marked by the Garnacha, which represented around 30% of the bottled blend. It’s tense and has abundant but fine-grained tannins, a little Italian in style. They kept a lower alcoholic degree in 2019, a moderate 14%, and the wine comes through as very elegant. This has to be my favorite vintage of Yjar. It spent 30 months in barrels of different sizes and foudres. 9,049 bottles were filled in June 2022."
, RobertParker.com
"The 2019 Yjar is a blend of Tempranillo and other varieties. It hails from a plot known to have been under vine since 1420 in the Remelluri property, in Labastida, Rioja Alavesa. With a light garnet color, it exudes intense, maraschino-like cherry aromas, accompanied by hints of bay leaf, sweet bread and herbs—all pristine. Dry and fairly lean, the chalky, reactive tannins and delicate, juicy flow create a compact yet nimble palate. It boasts a very long finish, lingering on its cherry notes with a lactic touch. This is a beautiful and delicious red, equally distant from the past and the future styles of Rioja. Certainly, this is a wine feat."
Joaquin Hidalgo, December 2023, Vinous.com
"A more fragrant Yjar this year, more peppery and lifted. Chalk, pepper and mezcal-like herbs with hints of cedar and cocoa powder to the blueberries. Super refined tannins tread carefully on the medium- to full-bodied palate with great juiciness and a long, polished finish. An intrinsic expression. Already delicious now, but will hold, too."
James Suckling, August 2023, JamesSuckling.com
"I tasted this at the property from barrel, thrilled to follow it now in bottle. Grabs you from the first moments with its sage, thyme, dried flowers and incense aromatics, clings to your nostrils, drawing you in, so much depth of flavour to the vivid raspberry and sour cherry fruits, delicate and yet powerful. Hard to describe how little artifice is conveyed in the glass, it's not a wine that is coated in new oak, instead it is delicate, poised, crafted, utterly gorgeous, so moreish. Harvest October 6 to 18, 3.8ha, old gobelet vines, with any replacements coming from massal selction. Iconic winemaking partnership Telmo Rodriguez and Pablo Eguzkiza. I hope everyone folllowed my advice from the first vintage to get on board because it is more than living up to its potential, and its tiny quatities means that first come are almost certainly first served."
Jane Anson, August 2023, JaneAnson.com
"The third vintage by oenologist-winemakers Telmo Rodriguez and Pablo Eguzkiza, the 3.8-hectare, single-vineyard cuvée from the limestone foothills of the Sierra de Toloño in Rioja Alavesa is made from a massal selection of Tempranillo, Graciano, Garnacha, Granegro and Rojal. A lovely bright pink-red colour in the glass. Supple and succulent, smooth and round, such a lifeforce on show, a step up slightly from last year - clearly so energetic, forward and sleek. This is defined and powerful no doubt, this is packing a punch in terms of intensity this year, focussed and spiced, the heat and oak come through strongly, but it manages to stay the right side of too much, giving direction and force with lashings of cooling minerality, dried herbs and floral touches. A great wine, joyous, bright, enveloping and high toned. It pulls the palate from black and red fruits to toasted spice, cinnamon, vanilla, blackcurrants and kirsch. Complex and compelling, Yjar always leaves a smile on my face wanting to try another glass and this is no exception."
Georgina Hindle, August 2023, Decanter.com
, RobertParker.com
"The 2019 Yjar is a blend of Tempranillo and other varieties. It hails from a plot known to have been under vine since 1420 in the Remelluri property, in Labastida, Rioja Alavesa. With a light garnet color, it exudes intense, maraschino-like cherry aromas, accompanied by hints of bay leaf, sweet bread and herbs—all pristine. Dry and fairly lean, the chalky, reactive tannins and delicate, juicy flow create a compact yet nimble palate. It boasts a very long finish, lingering on its cherry notes with a lactic touch. This is a beautiful and delicious red, equally distant from the past and the future styles of Rioja. Certainly, this is a wine feat."
Joaquin Hidalgo, December 2023, Vinous.com
"A more fragrant Yjar this year, more peppery and lifted. Chalk, pepper and mezcal-like herbs with hints of cedar and cocoa powder to the blueberries. Super refined tannins tread carefully on the medium- to full-bodied palate with great juiciness and a long, polished finish. An intrinsic expression. Already delicious now, but will hold, too."
James Suckling, August 2023, JamesSuckling.com
"I tasted this at the property from barrel, thrilled to follow it now in bottle. Grabs you from the first moments with its sage, thyme, dried flowers and incense aromatics, clings to your nostrils, drawing you in, so much depth of flavour to the vivid raspberry and sour cherry fruits, delicate and yet powerful. Hard to describe how little artifice is conveyed in the glass, it's not a wine that is coated in new oak, instead it is delicate, poised, crafted, utterly gorgeous, so moreish. Harvest October 6 to 18, 3.8ha, old gobelet vines, with any replacements coming from massal selction. Iconic winemaking partnership Telmo Rodriguez and Pablo Eguzkiza. I hope everyone folllowed my advice from the first vintage to get on board because it is more than living up to its potential, and its tiny quatities means that first come are almost certainly first served."
Jane Anson, August 2023, JaneAnson.com
"The third vintage by oenologist-winemakers Telmo Rodriguez and Pablo Eguzkiza, the 3.8-hectare, single-vineyard cuvée from the limestone foothills of the Sierra de Toloño in Rioja Alavesa is made from a massal selection of Tempranillo, Graciano, Garnacha, Granegro and Rojal. A lovely bright pink-red colour in the glass. Supple and succulent, smooth and round, such a lifeforce on show, a step up slightly from last year - clearly so energetic, forward and sleek. This is defined and powerful no doubt, this is packing a punch in terms of intensity this year, focussed and spiced, the heat and oak come through strongly, but it manages to stay the right side of too much, giving direction and force with lashings of cooling minerality, dried herbs and floral touches. A great wine, joyous, bright, enveloping and high toned. It pulls the palate from black and red fruits to toasted spice, cinnamon, vanilla, blackcurrants and kirsch. Complex and compelling, Yjar always leaves a smile on my face wanting to try another glass and this is no exception."
Georgina Hindle, August 2023, Decanter.com