Villota "Selvanevada" Rioja 2022

Vinous - Joaquin Hidalgo : 91 Points

(5/2025) The 2022 Tinto Selvanevada comes from Laserna. This offers red and black fruit notes and a cool herbal dimension that sharpens the aromas. Fine-grained tannins and good tension support a juice core, leading into a full, expressive finish with a touch of camphor. The 2022 is well balanced and clearly defined. Drinking Window: 2025 - 2037.

Jeb Dunnuck : 91 Points

(7/3/2024) The 2022 Selvanevada Tinto is terrific, with a ripe, medium to full-bodied, concentrated style revealing a darker core of fruits, some leafy herbs, graphite, and spicy notes, solid mid-palate depth, and ripe, building tannins. A serious wine, it will evolve for a decade. Maturity: 2024 - 2034.

Wine Spectator : 91 Points

(12/31/2024) This fluid red offers a pleasingly plump core of chopped black plum and raspberry flavors reined in by a sinewy frame of fine-grained tannins. Fragrant hints of lavender, rooibos tea leaf, vanilla and dusty spices lace the fruit profile and linger on the finish. Tempranillo, Graciano, Mazuelo and Garnacha. Drink now through 2029. 7,000 cases made, 2,000 cases imported.

James Suckling : 91 Points

(7/24/2024) Fruity nose but not yet a fruit bomb. I like the purity and the fleshy cherry core, with notes of blueberries, dark plums and dried hibiscus. Fresh and nicely chewy with a fleshy core of mid-palate fruit. Flavorful, medium-length finish with loads of fruit. Drink now.