Wine of the Day, No. 194

Buy the Carlos Serres Crianza Rioja 2012 by the case, for drinking over the next year or two. A

blend of 85 percent tempranillo grapes and 15 percent garnacha, it embodies what seems to me are the primary characteristics of the tempranillo grape, a combination of slightly dried black and blue fruit, new leather, dried herbs and iodine-washed minerality; …