This is fair value - opens out after 30+ mins and reveals black cherry and a solid structure. I thought it would continue to evolve but there was little change after 3 hours. I will wait several months before trying another.
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Color: Purplish red with a bare hint of brown. The wine is opaque with some very fine sediment.
Nose: Him: fresh red currants and raspberry perhaps a hint of marinara sauce. A bit of stone and some vanilla or coffee. I sense some alcohol or other volatiles as well
Her: prosciutto, pear, dried fig and a little bit of coffee on the end. Perhaps some chocolate.
Palate: Him: There is a restaurant I know that serves a blueberry ketchup. This tastes like that. Bright tomato, hint of blueberry, some rice vinegar, a hint of apple cider vinegar that resolves into a hard apple cider finish.
Her: a rather strange combination of marinara sauce and raspberry chocolate. The nose is much more interesting and pleasing overall. Not a bad wine, but certainly not a sipping wine
Overall: This wine was not showing great without food. It doesn't seem to be flawed, nor does it have any glaring deficiencies... It just isn't that interesting or that good. This comes across as an experiment by a good winemaker rather than a well made wine.
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Toasty oak dominates, along with coffee beans,sweet cassis and black cherry fruit. The palate brings those same sweet black fruits, dark chocolate and toasty wood. The heavy hand of oak and sweetness of fruit is just too much. A whore in a glass.
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1/28/2018 - Dan L wrote: 93 Points
Fantastic. This is one you had to wait for; both for time in the cellar and time in the decanter. Once it opened up it was a real joy to experience.
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6/2/2014 - amswine wrote:
This is fair value - opens out after 30+ mins and reveals black cherry and a solid structure. I thought it would continue to evolve but there was little change after 3 hours. I will wait several months before trying another.
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2/13/2014 - ppearson9 Likes this wine: 90 Points
very good. totally disagree with previous review (80)
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9/22/2013 - cmaldoon wrote: 80 Points
2007 Urraca Familia Langley
Notes 90 min after opening.
Color: Purplish red with a bare hint of brown. The wine is opaque with some very fine sediment.
Nose:
Him: fresh red currants and raspberry perhaps a hint of marinara sauce. A bit of stone and some vanilla or coffee. I sense some alcohol or other volatiles as well
Her: prosciutto, pear, dried fig and a little bit of coffee on the end. Perhaps some chocolate.
Palate:
Him: There is a restaurant I know that serves a blueberry ketchup. This tastes like that. Bright tomato, hint of blueberry, some rice vinegar, a hint of apple cider vinegar that resolves into a hard apple cider finish.
Her: a rather strange combination of marinara sauce and raspberry chocolate. The nose is much more interesting and pleasing overall. Not a bad wine, but certainly not a sipping wine
Overall: This wine was not showing great without food. It doesn't seem to be flawed, nor does it have any glaring deficiencies... It just isn't that interesting or that good. This comes across as an experiment by a good winemaker rather than a well made wine.
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11/25/2011 - troutmonster wrote:
Toasty oak dominates, along with coffee beans,sweet cassis and black cherry fruit. The palate brings those same sweet black fruits, dark chocolate and toasty wood. The heavy hand of oak and sweetness of fruit is just too much. A whore in a glass.
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