Campo Viejo Crianza 2006 - Asda

A lovely wine. Lacks the refinement of its bigger brothers for sure, but also lacks some of their atypical in-yer-face quality. Nevertheless this is in a modern style, and pursuers of old school cigar box Rioja may be disappointed. What this is is a lovely Rioja with modern flavours, but which tends towards the lean rather than the velvety end of the wine spectrum (as old-school Rioja does.) And excellent with food.

Campo Viejo Crianza 2006 - 6+/10, Asda £5.79