Community Tasting Notes 4

• AlphaMikeFoxtrot wrote: 82 points

  March 12, 2023 - Red cherry, dried cranberry, white mushrooms, dirt, tobacco, banyard, animal funk and potpourri on the nose. The palate is simpler - I mostly just get the fruit, a chemical/plastic note and a hint of dried green herbs (like herbs d'Provence).
  
  Medium body, medium acid, medium + tannin. This feels like bulk wine Monastrell to me - the kind of thing you'd get when ordering the house red in Spain. But I give it some points for being varietally correct.

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• GaryF Likes this wine: 87 points

  November 17, 2022 - PnP. At first it wasn’t very giving. The nose was muted and the palate tight and slightly austere. Let it sit around a bit in the glass, had a bite of a New York strip steak and the fruit appeared, opening up the wine and making it more enjoyable. Open it, air it a bit, enjoy it with food.

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• Motz wrote: 85 points

  July 26, 2022 - Very good juice. A little light for the variety, and showing a greenish bite at the back. Very good structure. Best with food.

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• tenorselbow wrote: 88 points

  July 6, 2022 - Three years after trying my first Murcia monastrell, from Jumilla, I'm trying the Yecla region for the first time and am impressed. Big nose of glazed cherries, Play-doh and just-out-of-the-oven brownies. Intense mouth of blackcurrant, plum skin and licorice. Touch of blueberries on a short finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2020
• Type Red
• Producer Bodegas Castaño
• Varietal Monastrell
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Murcia
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Yecla

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• In Cellars 13 (33%)
• Consumed 26 (67%)

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