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"The 2017 Reserva Selección de la Familia comes from a very challenging vintage, and the wine produced with Tempranillo and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon has high ripeness at 14.5% alcohol (it was a warm year after the crop was decimated by frost). It feels quite oaky with notes of incense and cigar ash intermixed with ripe fruit and some herbs after it spent 20 months in French and American oak barrels. Traditional with a twist and an herbal side to it. 101,225 bottles produced. - Luis Gutiérrez"

- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (July 2022), 91 pts

"Brilliant violet. Expressive dark berry, cherry cola and vanilla aromas are complemented by suggestions of pipe tobacco and candied flowers. Lush and open-knit, offering appealingly sweet black and blue fruit flavors that tighten up and become sweeter with air. Polished tannins frame a very long, smooth finish featuring hints of cherry preserves and baking spices. Raised in a 50/50 combination of French and American oak. - Josh Raynolds"

- Antonio Galloni's Vinous (April 2021), 93 pts

"Berry and chocolate with some cedar and vanilla. Full-bodied, yet tight and reserved, with firm tannins and a long, fresh finish. Tempranillo. Drinkable now, but a year or two of bottle age will soften it even more."

- James Suckling (September 2021), 92 pts

"A ripe, flavorful Rioja with ripe berries and lots of old, toasted oak. Coffee character as well. Medium to full body, chewy tannins and a vanilla finish. A little overdone, but it’s still very attractive. Drink or hold."
- James Suckling (October 2020), 91 pts

"A saturated color and aromas of ripe black fruits, perfumed oak, vanilla and oud wood are welcoming, while this Reserva feels lush but also racy due to vital core acidity. Toasty oak and deep berry flavors finish long and smoky. Drink now or hold through 2027. - MICHAEL SCHACHNER"
- Wine Enthusiast Magazine (June/July 2020), 93 pts

"Made from an unusual (for Rioja) blend of Tempranillo with 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, sourced from five different Rioja Alavesa villages, this is a serious, new French and American oak-aged red with plenty of tannic backbone, aromas of graphite and cassis and dense blackberry and mocha flavors. 2021-26."
- TIM ATKIN RIOJA 2020 SPECIAL REPORT, February 2020, 93 pts

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"Elderberries, blackcurrants, blackberries and tea leaves. Full-bodied and intense on the palate, driving home a wealth of dark fruit and chewy tannins. Drink in 2021."
- James Suckling (July 2019), 91 pts

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"One of only a handful of wines in Rioja that uses "experimental" Cabernet Sauvignon, Luis Cañas combines it here with 85% Tempranillo. This is still comparatively oaky, made before the shift in style in 2013, but the Cabernet gives the wine backbone and soaks up the splinters. Firm, refreshing and well structured. 2020-26."
- TIM ATKIN RIOJA 2019 SPECIAL REPORT, February 2019, 93 pts

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"(raised in new oak barrels, half French and half American) Deep ruby color. Sexy, oak-tinged raspberry, cassis and licorice aromas, along with a hint of mocha. Offers silky, sweet dark fruit and floral pastille flavors that show excellent depth and are energized by a late jolt of peppery spices. The spicy quality carries through a long, subtly tannic finish that leaves vanilla and blue fruit notes behind."
- Antonio Galloni's Vinous (February 2019), 92 pts

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"A bona fide fruit bomb, the 2012 Reserva Seleccion Familia checks in as 85% Tempranillo and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon that spent 20 months in equal part French and American oak. It’s a big, full-bodied, ripe effort that has loads of cassis, vanilla, cedarwood, and licorice aromas and flavors. Despite all its fruit, it stays balanced and lively on the palate, with good purity and a great finish. I’d drink it over the coming decade, but I suspect it will keep even longer."
- Jeb Dunnuck (March 2019), 92 pts

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"The 2012 Reserva Selección de la Familia is Tempranillo with 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, which makes it different from the majority of reds from Rioja. It matured 50/50 in French and American oak barrels for 20 months. It's slightly more international than the rest of the bottlings, the Cabernet adding some weight. There are notes of toasted sesame seeds and a touch from the French oak. It's clearly different, so it's a matter of preference which one you like best. 125,250 bottles produced. - Luis Gutierrez"
- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (Issue #235, February 2018), 91 pts

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93 pts - GOLD MEDAL - Rioja Masters 2017 / Drinks Business

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"Dark and oaky with some power and richness, but savory rather than sweetish. The finish is frankly tannic, but fairly well balanced. Drink now."
- James Suckling (July 2017), 91 pts

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 "Fresh and sweet with ripe aromas of dark violets, citrus leaf and sweet spice with a touch of beeswax. Summer pudding and vanilla cream dominate the palate with juicy and concentrated plum and cherry flavours."
- Decanter, 92 pts

"Coffee and cola notes frame the currant, licorice, leather and floral flavors in this bold red. Muscular and rangy, with firm tannins and lively acidity. Drink now through 2030.—T.M."
- Wine Spectator Insider (May 17th 2017), 92 pts"

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"Deep ruby. Heady aromas of blueberry, candied licorice, violet and toasty oak, along with suggestions of woodsmoke and vanilla. Sweet, pliant and expansive, offering juicy dark berry and floral pastille flavors that become livelier with air. Densely packed but lively, finishing with very good clarity, smooth, late-arriving tannins and excellent persistence. - Josh Raynolds"
- Antonio Galloni's Vinous (May 2017), 92 pts

WINE OF THE YEAR Award
World Association of Writers and Journalists of Wine & Spirits

"Sheltered by the steep and craggy Cantabrian Mountains of Spain, to the northwest we find the hot, arid region of Rioja, home to some of the best and most historically significant wineries in Spain. Sitting on the Northern banks of the Ebro River, Luis Cañas calls the calcareous soils of Rioja Alavesa home. The region although best known for carbonically macerated vino Joven Tempranillo, has become a region for quality and intriguing Reserva and Gran Reserva wines as well.

The 2009 Luis Cañas Reserva Selección de la Familia is harvested from 45 year-old vines and is composed of the region’s most planted varietal, Tempranillo and 15% Cabernet Sauvignon. With a little bit of age these wines begin to evolve with many of the secondary flavors complementing the drying sweet and sour fruit. This wine shows notes of raspberry jam, sweet and sour red cherries, dried black fruits, green tobacco, and balsamic. A mix of new French and American oak lends itself to the wine by softening the fruit and adding notes of vanilla, dill, and coconut oil. This wine is best paired with local cuisine such as braised and grilled meats and stronger, richer cave-aged goat cheeses."

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - SPAIN

"Smoky, toasty oak aromas are dominant on a black-fruit bouquet that also shows graphite. This is saturated and tight, with complexity and outright deliciousness of savory, meaty, spicy blackberry flavors. Toast, cured beef and cocoa flavors prove that there's more to this than just heft and oak. Best from 2019 through 2032."
- Wine Enthusiast, 93 pts