Nobody brings the value drama like the Spaniards, and that goes for every conceivable price\nlevel. Izadi was founded in 1987 when\nthe estate was purchased by the Anton family, who then hired Mariano Garcia\n(formerly Vega Sicilia, now Mauro and Aalto) as a consultant. This bottling is from what is considered by the Anton family to be their premier\nsite, El Regalo, a single vineyard of Tempranillo planted in 1940 on a terroir of chalky limestone clay\ncovered with pebbles near the village of Villabuena de \u00c1lava. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018El Regalo\u2019 means \u2018the gift\u2019 in Spanish, and the family clearly considers this bottling a gift of Nature from this unique plot.\u00a0 Hand harvested grapes from 70+ year old vines that are \u2018practicing organically\u2019 farmed certainly have the potential to make exciting wine. The press (94 Decanter, 91 James Suckling, 91 Wine Advocate) seems to confirm that happened here.\u00a0 Firmly committed to straddling the stylistic spectrum between traditional and modern, the wine makes no reference to the typical crianza, reserve, etc. <\/em>hierarchy.\u00a0 It is merely \u201cel Regalo\u201d.\u00a0 The wine sees 20 months in new French oak, more of a nod to the modern side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Wine Advocate shows the Izadi Rioja El Regalo 2014<\/strong><\/a> at a $30 retail.\u00a0 But with the current wholesale scenario of a staggering number of brands being offered through a small number of purveyors, there\u2019s a limit to how much the ‘team on the street’ can sell in a given time period, or how committed they are to going beyond just selling the \u2018easy ones\u2019.\u00a0 In such an environment, even some really good juice gets lost in the shuffle and the only way to create interest at that point is a hot price, like almost 50% off.\u00a0 At $16.98, this wine becomes even more of a \u2018regalo\u2019 (gift). While it lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nobody brings the value drama like the Spaniards, and that goes for every conceivable price level. Izadi was founded in 1987 when the estate was purchased by the Anton family, who then hired Mariano Garcia (formerly Vega Sicilia, now Mauro and Aalto) as a consultant. This bottling is from what is considered by the Anton … Continue reading “A ‘GIFT’ FOR YOU”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[57,586,587,102,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winex.com\/stockreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}