Contino GRVA 2005

This is a GRAN RESERVA but doesn't taste like the traditional GR's.
It undergoes malolactic in new 225 litre barrels where it spends its first year and is then transferred into progressively older barrels in its second and third years. By year three it ages in wood up to 5 years old.
Right now it is a a very charming wine. Sweet fruit with a hint of caramel and lovely oak treatment. It comes across as smooth and voluptuous. A crowd pleaser.
Very supple, lovely texture in the mouth. It's 70% Tempranillo and equal portions of Graciano and Garnacha which give it its lovely perfumed nose and sexy sweet fruit. (93-94)