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Monday, November 26, 2018 - Translation of the spanish tasting note
Els12golafres Wine Tasting Group: http://vinosclasicos.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/rioja-bordon-1982-gran-reserva.html
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Very light brown ruby ​​color of medium-low layer, evolved with amber and amber reflections. There is a light, fine grain that does not just rush to the bottom of the bottle. Broad, orange rim, with hardly any differences with the meniscus. Go through a wine with much older. It looks like a sixties.

The nose is well shaped, expressive, with a lot of presence of the barrel, a traditional profile that connects with the old Royal reserve and large reserve of Franco-Spanish. There are plenty of toasted, vanilla, creamy, noble woods, cedar, joinery oils (tung, flaxseed) and a background of aromatic coffee that adds some complexity. Fine and elegant, recognizable, very much in line with the old wines of the winery. When airing, notes of red fruits, liqueurs, candied cherries are coming to the fore. Resultón !!!

The palate is velvety, polished, generous, resting. It maintains a marked acidity (there we do see a clear imprint of the vintage) on which the reduced red fruit and tons of old wood settle. Happy reunion with one of those reliable and solid wines to which the winery had accustomed us for decades. A Rioja Bordón Gran Reserva that differs in almost everything to the raising of the same harvest: finer and more serious, without so much presence of the Grenache, in great moment of consumption. We believe that it can be saved for several years. Perhaps the best of the proven wines of Limbo, which meant the long period in which Rumasa extended its long and shadowy shadow over Bodegas Franco-Españolas (1973-1985).

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60% Tempranillo, 30% Garnacha, 10% Mazuelo and Graciano - 12.5% ​​vol.
It remains for 12 months in large tanks in which it performs malolactic fermentation and stabilizes before being decanted. Subjected to aging between 36 months and 42, depending on the vintage, in used American oak barrels of 225 liters. A minimum of 24 months of storage in a bottle before being commercialized.

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