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| Community Tasting Notes (average 88.9 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 43 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by cephomer on 12/26/2023 & rated 90 points: Drank xmas eve at the Pollacks. Age showing in the glass, leather and coffee aromas on the nose. Still some red and black fruit here, aromas of tar and coffee, mostly at a tertiary level now. Finish was medium length. A bit past its prime (122 views) | | | Tasted by donnylad on 11/22/2015: Great (2194 views) | | | Tasted by bdeblank on 7/9/2011 & rated 88 points: Found one more bottle in my cellar. Far better than I would have thought at this point. Fruit is fading but some nice coffee and cedar(?) tastes. Fine bottle, good price, wouldn't hold longer (on purpose). (3741 views) | | | Tasted by Bchimenti on 7/25/2009 & rated 88 points: Not bad for the price. Very drinkable. (5027 views) | | | Tasted by pezzed58@gmail.com on 1/6/2008 & rated 90 points: Amazing for the price, has at least 5 years left. (5017 views) | | | Tasted by dfeiner on 10/7/2007 & rated 90 points: Jammy. Black and blueberries, chocolate. A bit of coffee on the taste. Nice for the price (5018 views) | | | Tasted by PDD on 9/8/2007 & rated 90 points: Big, lush wine with lots of chocolate and dark fruit. The '02 was very good, but in a vertical with an '04 it really did not taste aged at all. So - I would say hold on to the '02 for another 3-5 years. (3672 views) | | | Tasted by jbshows on 7/22/2007 & rated 86 points: Emjoyed at the beach (2790 views) | | | Tasted by jbshows on 7/16/2007 & rated 87 points: Cherries and spice. Good value. (2802 views) | | | Tasted by gschneider on 7/15/2007 & rated 92 points: Great color of deep ruby red, nose of flint, black cherry and oak. Let sit for about 30 minutes. Initial taste was of cherry and spice box, then some wood, and raisin. Loved the structure, tannic backbone and great aftertaste. Great wine for the price. (2781 views) | | | Tasted by caboychuck on 4/7/2007 & rated 90 points: Color: dark, purple core, garnet/ruby on rim. Nose: nice, licorice, red fruit, little jammy, spice. Palate: cellar temp, nice than last bottle, big red fruit, predominant cherry, spiciness. Rich, round mouth feel. Long. (3099 views) | | | Tasted by PDD on 10/22/2006 & rated 89 points: Very big wine with dark fruits and even some hints of grilled meat on the pallette. Outstanding for it's price range. (3709 views) | | | Tasted by caboychuck on 10/21/2006: Color was really dark. Nose at first was simple, plain and didn't offer much. It did open with time with some black fruit. Palate also was simple to start, but again opened with time. Some black fruit, but still didn't amount to what I thought it would. Have more, so will taste again and post. (3783 views) | | | Tasted by tmay on 8/17/2006 & rated 88 points: Cherry and raisin. Jammy. Short finish. (3826 views) | | | Tasted by MJHDC on 8/12/2006: Perhaps not quite as rich as an earlier bottle I had, this still has plenty of ripe black cherry fruit, along with some leather, smoke, and oak aromas. Still some tannin. Has it along a $50 Cal syrah, and this bottle was not as good, but certainly comparable and a much better value. (3923 views) | | | Tasted by 5laton on 7/12/2006 & rated 87 points: Crunchy red cherries - blind, I would have guessed this was mostly Grenache -- with some darker plum and raisin flavors and nice complexity. Tannins a bit firm on the finish, becoming more wooly and mouth-numbing with additional time in the decanter. However there is enough fruit to make this tolerable. Biggest problem is the clipped finish. Still, this is an overperformer at $12. (4141 views) | | | Tasted by dbkitc on 1/1/2006: Deep, full and chunky (a bit weedy) - OK, but no more. (11) (4932 views) | | | Tasted by dbkitc on 12/3/2005: Deep garnet to ruby; pretty interesting nose of berry jam and rubber tire – a cool cobbler dessert smell; very upfront, cough syrup palate. Fun and fleshy, but nothing to back up the initial attack. I like but don’t love. (12.5) (5139 views) | | | Tasted by AlpharettaWine on 12/3/2005 & rated 92 points: Excelllent - Another great value from Spain. (5002 views) | | | Tasted by dbkitc on 10/28/2005: Brilliant garnet – very appealing – sturdy mouvadre color – shows great depth of color for such a reasonably price wine. Strong red plum and shoe polish nose. Very pronounced licorice note emerges with time. Feels a little superficial and man-made. Medium / full bodied – hefty weight and very solid structure is a bit of a surprise. There is some lovely fruit in the background. Again, seems a bit medicinal and forced. Needs a couple of years to settle down. I can go either way on the potential of this wine. Could be very, very good if the fruit holds up. Try again 2007. Potentially outstanding value – time will tell. (12.5 +?) (5265 views) | | | Tasted by indy715 on 10/25/2005 & rated 87 points: Good wine for the price. Jammy with slight hints of vanilla to soften the fruit. (4839 views) | | | Tasted by mitchmiller on 10/22/2005 & rated 86 points: Great but get the 2003. (4771 views) | | | Tasted by AndrewSGHall on 9/8/2005: Marqués Phillipsena? Hot, jammy-to-rotten fruit, prickly. Ringer for the MP style of wine. No balance, no finesse. Nearly tolerable while grilling some steak, awful with the food itself. (4812 views) | | | Tasted by SeaBud on 9/1/2005 & rated 88 points: Dark fruits and big tannins. However, the balance was off. Good QPR, but did not have complexity or the balance of fruits/tannins I enjoy. (4612 views) | | | Tasted by Bellaire Wino on 8/31/2005 & rated 90 points: Fairly strong tannins and alcohol... nice dark fruit taste...good finish; will buy more @ this price! 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Spain Vinos de España - Wines of Spain (Instituto Español de Comercio Exterior) | Wikipedia
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Spain is the third largest wine producing nation in the world, occupying the majority of the Iberian Peninsula with vast diversity in climate, culture, and of course, wine. From inky, dark reds of the [Priorat] to dry, white Finos from Andalusia, Spain can easily boast of elaborating a wide variety of notable styles. Within Spain there are currently 62 demarcated wine regions, of which a handful have gained international recognition: [Rioja], Priorat and [Ribera del Duero]. Yet these regions are only a small sample of the high quality wines Spain produces. Regions such as Cava, Penedes, Somontano, Galicia, Rueda and Jerez are only a few of the numerous regions worthy of exploration throughout Spain. Spain can also lay claim to having the most land under vine in the world, growing up to, by some accounts, 600 indigenous varietals of which Tempranillo is their most well known. Other popular varietals include [Garnacha], Bobal and Monastrell for reds and for whites; the infamous [sic] Palomino Fino grape which is used in the production of sherry wine, Pedro Ximenez in Montilla Morilles, Albarino used in the creation of the bright, effervescent wines of Galicia, and Verdejo in Rueda. - Source: - Catavino.net
Spain is not in the forefront of winemaking for its dessert wines, other than for its sweet wines from Sherry country including the highly revered Olorosos (when sweetened). But apart from Sherry Spain has a range of styles of dessert wines, ranging from the those made from the Pedro Ximenez grape primarily in Jerez and Montilla-Moriles) to luscious, red dessert wines made in the Mediterranean from the Garnacha (Grenache) grape. Some good Moscatels are made in Mallorca, Alicante and Navarre. The northwest corner of Spain, Galicia, with its bitter Atlantic climate, is even making dessert wines, called “Tostadillos” in the village of Ribadivia (similar to France’s “Vin de Paille”). The Canary Islands have made interesting dessert wines for centuries (they are mentioned by Shakespeare, for example) and in recent years the quality of winemaking has been improved and the Canary Islands wines are being better marketed now. The winemaking styles for “Vinos Dulces” are also diverse, from “Late Harvest” (Vendimia Tardía) to “Fortified Wines” (Fermentación Parcial). Based on in-spain.info.MurciaLocated in Southeastern Spain, the "lost" region of Yecla lies to the east of Jumilla and to the west of Alicante. Fortunately, this region was spared much of the wrath of the phylloxera plague, and many ungrafted and extremely old vines remain. The Yecla region’s progressive leader, Bodegas Castaño, has long been an advocate of the Monastrell varietal, also known as Mourvèdre. The varietal is best regarded for its influence on the wines of Châteauneuf-du-Pape where the terroir and climate is not dissimilar to that of Yecla. Both benefit from a very warm, Mediterranean climate with warm days and nights. Jumilla Jumillo DO (Wikipedia)
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The authorised red grapes are the following:
Monastrell, Tempranillo, (known locally as Cencibel), Garnacha Tintorera, Garnacha, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah and Petit Verdot (source=wikipedia, Jumilla) |
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