2004 Fernando Remírez de Ganuza Rioja Reserva
Community Tasting Note
Zweder wrote:
91 Points
Friday, June 7, 2013 - Tasting with good frends. (@ MatH): Very sweet bouquet with ripe red as well as black forest fruits. On the palate juicy fruits and firm acidity. A lot of oak. Still very youthful. The majority thought this was almost mind blowing, but I was a little less enthusiastic. Ok a very good wine, but all the pieces, especially the oak, still have to fall in its proper place. 91(++?) for tonight.
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Comment posted by Harley1199:
5/4/2015 3:56:00 PM - Too soon, dear Zweder ...Fernando loves new oak and 2004 isn't an open, a fruity vintage; there were some exceptions of course but this idnt one of those.
Cheers!
Comment posted by Zweder:
5/4/2015 4:06:00 PM - Agree with you dear Harley. As you can see by the (++?) behind the score. But fyi; this was not my bottle. And to be honest; I don’t even own a single bottle of this producer. But I know in the meantime I should have. So I am waiting for a good opportunity to buy some. Cheers! Z.
Comment posted by Harley1199:
5/4/2015 5:13:00 PM - If necessary, I've got a few bottles ready to be shared...at least in a decade :-)
Comment posted by Zweder:
5/4/2015 5:16:00 PM - :-) :-) :-) ;-). Be sure, whenever I plan to go to Madrid, I will let you know in time.
Comment posted by Harley1199:
5/4/2015 5:31:00 PM - You're welcome, no doubts about it
Comment posted by Zweder:
5/4/2015 5:37:00 PM - :-) You never stop writing comments. Ok, you have to, if you want to stay on top of the list...;-). Isn't it time to go to sleep in Spain now? Here it is, but I am always up extremely late. Btw; the rain is pouring down like hell here...
Cheers and thanks for the invite... :-).
Comment posted by Harley1199:
5/5/2015 2:43:00 AM - Dear Zweder, you've got me. All my plan has been revealed :-)
Seriously speaking I just comment about bottles I own. To be sincere I am trying to cut on comments 'cause don't want to disturb so much, excepting with open-mind people like you mainly I like to write, speak and share about wine, all the time.
Too late for Spanish standards? Don't think so. Perhaps that's why siesta was invented by us :-)
Cheers!
Comment posted by Zweder:
5/5/2015 2:47:00 AM - :-) I should have been born in Spain....
Comment posted by Harley1199:
5/5/2015 2:51:00 AM - Hahahaha probably you're right but I guess you was born in 'the wrong side' of the old Spanish empire, wasn't you? :-)
Comment posted by Zweder:
5/5/2015 2:51:00 AM - Tasted Valbuena no5 1977 recently. That was not too young and still perfectly ok :-)
Comment posted by Zweder:
5/5/2015 3:00:00 AM - Fyi In 1975 I was in Madrid..... I arrived by train from Bordeaux and was waiting for the train to Algeciras..... Still a teenager then.....
Comment posted by Harley1199:
5/5/2015 3:01:00 AM - Valbuena? I see ...for an average vintage, ten years is a must. Lot if people is discovering Valbuena as a hidden gem these days :-)
Cheers!