The pricey 2019 Los Yelsones is truly impressive, aromatic, nuanced, powerful and elegant, with power and finesse and some oak still to be integrated on the palate. It's pure Tempranillo from a plot planted in 1970 in La Rad in the fourth valley of San Vicente de la Sonsierra where the soils have big blocks of calcium carbonate (yelsones) that name the wine. This matured in 500-liter oak barrels for 18 months, but the oak feels more integrated than the initial 2018 that I tasted in my previous review of Rioja. It's a showy and impressive wine that should develop nicely in bottle. 1,828 bottles were filled in June 2021.
95 points, Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate (Jul 2022)
Plum and berry with some hazelnut and lavender. Fresh flowers, too. Medium to full body with firm, chewy tannins that are fine-grained. Racy and beautiful. Drink after 2023.
94 points, James Suckling (Oct 2021)
The 2019 Los Yelsones is 100% Tempranillo all from the La Raz vineyard. This deep purple-hued effort has a pure, pretty, elegant bouquet that includes lots of red and blue fruit (it's more red-fruited) as well as flowers, spicy wood, liquid violet, and charcoal. Medium to full-bodied on the palate, it has good purity, a lively, elegant mouthfeel, bright acidity, and a clean finish.
93 points, Jeb Dunnuck (Jun 2022)
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