Community Tasting Note

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Saturday, December 23, 2017 - Colour:
clear, medium garnet red with brown notes on the rim,
mirroring

Nose:
Clear,
Pronounced intensity,
Primary, secondary and tertiary notes

PRIMARY
Floral notes (Violets, a summer meadow of herbs)
Red fruit (Sour cherry, raspberry, morellos)
Dark fruit (Cassis, dark cherry, blackberry, blueberry, elder)
Baked / cooked / dried fruit (baked dark plum, cherry liqueur)
Herbs (Cassis leaves, paprika, pepperoni, parsley, rosemary, oregano)
Spices (Clove, juniper, anise)

SECONDARY
Oak notes (Vanilla, smoke, cacao, coffee, coco nut, toast, chocolate, cedar wood)

TERTIARY
Oxidative notes & fruit development & bottle ripeness:
Nuts (hazel nut), caramel, marzipan, brown rock candy, dried red currant, dried raspberry, cinnamon, tar, tobacco, meaty notes

Develops from time to time when opening the bottle (we poured the bottle over 3-4 hours and it constantly changed, especially at the beginning)

Taste:
Dry,
Medium (+) acidity,
Medium (+) tannin, very tight and ripe, very very fine on the tongue,
Medium alcohol,
Medium (+) body,
Pronounced intensity,
Primary, secondary and tertiary notes (comparable to the notes on the nose)
Length: long, fruity and spicy aftertaste

Fruit and acidity are still dominating

Overall:
Quality: extraordinary
Ripeness: ripe enough to be poured now, but high cellaring potential

97/100 points
2016-2038 (Drinking window)

A Rioja monument!
Truly one of the best wines of Spain and an extraordinary expression of the Tempranillo grape!
This is one of the best wines that I had. Very special, but if you like Rioja, you will LOVE this wine. This one is as good as Rioja gets. No mistake, no weakness, and the margin between this and a 100 point wine is small.

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