Campo Viejo Rioja Crianza

Campo Viejo is a Rioja priced at around £7 - although it is often on offer in Sainsburys. It is a blend of Tempranillo, Granacha and Mazuelo grape varieties and is aged for 12 months in American oak and at least 6 months in the bottle. It is 13% and a 75cl bottle contains 9.75 alcoholic units. It is a very nice medium bodied red with berry flavours, a slightly woody aroma and a very subtle hint of vanilla. It is very smooth and easy to drink on its own or with food. Although it is not too heavy to drink on its own, it still retains its flavour with food even strongly flavoured roasts. I think it is a particularly good accompaniment for Mediterranean dishes particular ...  Read the complete review

Campo Viejo Crianza is a Spanish wine which I find some time at Tesco. It costs around 6 pounds. I like a very good red wine, very strong like fire! The bottle shows you that this is not a pale wine and it has a yellow label, with information on the producer. It all looks so Spanish, and this is good! This wine sits in oak barrels for at least 12 months, but the one I have just finished to drink is dated 2004, and it was a good one! It has a fruity taste, although if you drink more than 3 glasses, with some good meet, I must confess that it starts to have a more bodied taste, and the fruitiness leaves the space to a nice feeling that this ...  Read the complete review

I was bought a present of a bottle of Campo Viejo Rioja Gran Reserva 1999 around 5 years ago from Spain and have been looking for it ever since. Obviously, it mustn't last that long! Since then I have bought a couple of bottles of Campo Viejo Reserva whenever I have seen it... one to drink and one for the wine rack...but that never seems to work somehow. I previously bought two from Oddbins on the high street a couple of years ago but I drank them both and they were delicious. Last week I saw some Campo Viejo Rioja Crianza 2002 in Tesco's at £5.99 a bottle and, as I had never tried this one, I again bought two. After drinking one last night I decided to write ...  Read the complete review