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The $20 Rioja with a 140-Year History

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2015 Cune Rioja Reserva 750 ml

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This Member-Favorite Rioja Just Got Better

There’s a reason Cune was the first Spanish winery to receive Wine Spectator’s coveted Wine of the Year award: The icon’s bold, dynamic wines offer both a window to the past and a transfixing modern beauty.

Their 2015 Rioja Reserva overflows with muscular power, textbook Spanish verve, and piles of dusty, just-picked red fruit, all set to a symphony of critical praise from James Suckling, Wine Enthusiast, and Vinous. 

It's also a double-take-inducing value, even for the bargain section of Rioja. The region turns out marquee bottles that cost well into the three-digit range, but it’s also one of the best areas in the world for powerful reds at budget prices. 

2015 was an outstanding vintage, and the perfect ripeness Cune’s grapes for this Reserva achieved is on full display in the wine’s warm notes of raspberry, black cherry, and spicy licorice. At the same time, the wine never loses its spicy, aromatic freshness. Painstakingly aged at the winery for over five years in bottle before it reached our warehouse, it’s in glorious form today. 

While Cune was founded 1879, their approach to winemaking continues to evolve. Modern winemaking techniques include chilling the grapes before fermentation, fermenting in stainless steel and oak vats, and aging the wine for a full 18 months in French and American oak barrels. Those practices unearth multi-dimensional flavors, maintain freshness, and capture aromatics that fully express the region’s storied terroir. 

The result is a wine that’s both delicious and cellar-worthy,  ready to deliver the past and the present, well into the future.