Bigger Than Your Head

Bigger Than Your Head

An Affordable Rioja with a Little age

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Fredric Koeppel
Feb 23, 2012
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Rush right out and buy a few bottles of this wonderfully appealing yet suitably serious example of Rioja, from Spain's most renowned wine region. Burgo Viejo Reserva 2006, Rioja, was produced by a cooperative established by six families in 1987, since grown to 16 families.

Altogether, they draw on 494 acres of vineyards, the majority by far devoted to re…

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