▸ Made for lamb shoulder.

▸ Blackberry. Chocolate. Cinnamon.

▸ 60-year vines. 520m hill.

Old-vine Tempranillo from the Corazabe parcel at 520 m keeps its lift even after 18 months in French oak. Blackberry and charred wood notes stand up to slow-roasted lamb shoulder with piquillo peppers at the Sunday family table.

Coraz comes from Corazabe, a 520 m hill parcel of 60-plus-year Tempranillo sheltered by the Montes Obarenes. Rodrigo Madrid ferments the fruit in steel, then lets it sit 18 months in French oak before two summers of bottle calm. Blackberry and charred wood underline a cool-edge Rioja that feels both dense and lifted.