Bodega Contador (Benjamín Romeo) La Cueva del Contador Rioja
- Red
- Spain
- Rioja
- Tempranillo
- Graciano
- Garnacha
- Tracked vintages
- 16
- Community notes
- 296
- Merchant offers
- 88
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- UnknownNobody has published a critic score for a vintage we track
- Real drinkers
- 88/ 100296 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- UnknownNothing a merchant has quoted in a unit and a currency we can print
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 554 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Spanish Rioja Red.
- Body3.9 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.7 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.8 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.9 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, coffee
- Black fruit · black fruit, blackberry, blackcurrant, dark fruit, plum
- Earth · leather, balsamic, smoke, earthy, minerals
- Spice · pepper, licorice, fennel, eucalyptus, cinnamon
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry
- Floral · violet, lavender, lilac, lily, rose petal
Grapes: Tempranillo, Graciano, Garnacha. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a community score.
- 2025unit not stated
- 202385unit not stated
- 202286unit not stated
- 202188unit not stated
- 202090unit not stated
- 201988unit not stated
- 201889unit not stated
- 201789unit not stated
- 201688unit not stated
- 201588unit not stated
- 201387unit not stated
- 201292unit not stated
- 201186unit not stated
- 201089unit not stated
- 200881unit not stated
- 200490unit not stated
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2012
- 92 / 100 from drinkers