Community Tasting Note
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Red Mountain Man wrote: 96 points
March 7, 2007 - Bought today and promptly opened to determine if I needed to buy more for the cellar. I often approach RP scores with some caution because he prefers the overextracted fruit bombs which are good every now and then, but I don't want a cellar full of them. Since Jay Miller rated this one, I wanted to see how his palate alligned to mine.
I decanted the wine for 3 hours, and drank 1/2 the bottle on the first day. The second half was drank the following day. I don't have a lot of experience with Spanish wines, but this one definately tasted like a New World wine. In a blind cabernet tasting, it would be easy to confuse this as a qulaity California cab, and indeed, it reminded me of a great 02' Etude Napa Valley Cab bottle I had last year. The nose is a moster - deep rasberry, black cherries and vanilla. The tannins on this puppy are huge, so cellaring it for 5+ years before opening a bottle is recommended. The finish was well over a minute, and that is no lie. I have never had a wine with such a soaring finish. This wine was an emotional experience for me, and I can only see it getting better. I'm picking up another 3 tomorrow and will let sit until 2012 before popping the next one. I need to find more wine like this at $50.12,209 views