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Wine of the Day, No. 763

Wine of the Day, No. 763

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Fredric Koeppel
Oct 21, 2022
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With last weekend's pizza, I opened a bottle of the Beronia Crianza 2018, from Spain's well-known Rioja region. This is tempranillo territory, and indeed the wine comprises 96 percent tempranillo, to which was blended 3 percent garnacha and one percent mazuleo grapes. The wine aged 12 months in mixed oak barrels, that is, barrels with American oak stave…

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