Jancis Robinson: Dark purple. Big, powerful, dark, warm-rubber, ‘New World’ style. Blockbusting power, fruit, tannins, new French oak (at a guess), big, spicy power. This is a heavyweight with tremendous extraction, but is this what people expect when they buy Rioja? 18.5

Jeremy Watson: Lusciously rich, well-structured wine with lots of character, but in the end it is only a very good glass of wine. 16.5