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• missatiejacket Likes this wine:

  January 9, 2016 - This wine is crazy good for the price (around $20 or less). It's a very elegant style of Rioja, to the extent that I would even use the controversial descriptor "Burgundian". Ripe and tart, restrained red fruits join dusty earth, leather, pencil shavings, autumn leaves, and the subtle telltale herbal note of dill. It's quite complex. The palate offers fine-grained tannins, a core of extremely fresh fruit surrounded by all of the interesting non-fruit components, and a clear evolution of flavor. I'm not saying this is the greatest Rioja I've had. It's far from it. But it is the best one I can remember at this price. Really nice wine. This is one of my top QPRs in a long time in any category. I think it easily has the potential to develop well over the next 5-6 years, if not MUCH longer, but it's so good now that I likely won't have any at that time.

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