Medium light red, with brown edges. Funky, a bit musty as well, red fruit, cherry and berry and some old oak and earthiness. Nice aged wine flavours and a bit of a dried out finish.
Seemed like maybe early 90s. Very good showing.
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Nose is tropical fruit reduction, sweet vanilla, and a hint of leather. Nice acidity, light bodied. On the palate, strawberry rhubarb, coconut, tangy red berries, brown sugar.
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Echoing some recent notes, this was a real pleasure. Fresh, with nice acidity. Gobs of sweet vanilla and tropical flavors; earth. Nose is intoxicating.
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Meat, teriyaki, and coconut stand out among a huge and complex bouquet. Seamless, mature oak with plenty of vanilla and tropical flavors mingling with soft tannins and juicy acidity. Quite powerful for its age and holding together marvelously. Extracted and deep, a great joy to drink.
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wow wine! Cork had a little old seepage, but the fill was really good. Boom! Just everything you want in an older Rioja. Nose was all decaying leaves, earth, mushroom, and faded fruit. Wine was medium bodied, great acidity, with tannins integrated yet still giving structure. Taste was amazing, all the oak was integrated perfectly - totally unobtrusive, and in a great place with powerful aged fruits, earth, mushroom, hints of vanilla, leather with some hints of mint. Fantastic wine for the entire 5 hrs of the dinner. Based on this bottle, this can hold for a long time.
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Dusty with a little dried ham and spice from a less than perfect bottle (slight SOLD and TS fill). Very enjoyable with pork and black eyed peas on the last night of 2014.
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Brought to a friend's suckling pig roast as a throw in as my primary bottle was an 02 Alion. Host laughingly refers to older wines from my cellar that I never got around to drinking as "graveyard wines". Expected very little. Popped, decanted and poured. Fair amount of sediment. Shockingly good. Light ruby with no browning. Beautiful cherry nose. Refined soft blended palate of earth, cedar, coffee, tobacco and cherry. Just beautiful and puts a fair number of 82 Bordeaux that I have tried to shame.
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Tasted five Tinto Pesquera this evening, a special thanks to Joe Fitzpatrick for sharing. Very nice old smokey coffee and tobacco flavors on the nose, more of the same on the palate, long finish, clearly the winner tonight.
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11/4/2019 - David J Cooper wrote: 93 Points
Medium light red, with brown edges. Funky, a bit musty as well, red fruit, cherry and berry and some old oak and earthiness. Nice aged wine flavours and a bit of a dried out finish.
Seemed like maybe early 90s. Very good showing.
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5/20/2019 - TheSauerKraut Likes this wine:
Probably a bit past peak, but smooth and tasty.
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5/11/2019 - Gunakadeit Likes this wine: 93 Points
Nose is tropical fruit reduction, sweet vanilla, and a hint of leather. Nice acidity, light bodied. On the palate, strawberry rhubarb, coconut, tangy red berries, brown sugar.
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4/12/2019 - Gunakadeit Likes this wine: 94 Points
Echoing some recent notes, this was a real pleasure. Fresh, with nice acidity. Gobs of sweet vanilla and tropical flavors; earth. Nose is intoxicating.
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3/12/2018 - robmatic wrote: 95 Points
Meat, teriyaki, and coconut stand out among a huge and complex bouquet. Seamless, mature oak with plenty of vanilla and tropical flavors mingling with soft tannins and juicy acidity. Quite powerful for its age and holding together marvelously. Extracted and deep, a great joy to drink.
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2/24/2018 - ericindc Likes this wine: 98 Points
wow wine! Cork had a little old seepage, but the fill was really good. Boom! Just everything you want in an older Rioja. Nose was all decaying leaves, earth, mushroom, and faded fruit. Wine was medium bodied, great acidity, with tannins integrated yet still giving structure. Taste was amazing, all the oak was integrated perfectly - totally unobtrusive, and in a great place with powerful aged fruits, earth, mushroom, hints of vanilla, leather with some hints of mint. Fantastic wine for the entire 5 hrs of the dinner. Based on this bottle, this can hold for a long time.
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1/2/2015 - Vintage82 wrote:
Dusty with a little dried ham and spice from a less than perfect bottle (slight SOLD and TS fill). Very enjoyable with pork and black eyed peas on the last night of 2014.
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8/25/2013 - cos82 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Brought to a friend's suckling pig roast as a throw in as my primary bottle was an 02 Alion. Host laughingly refers to older wines from my cellar that I never got around to drinking as "graveyard wines". Expected very little. Popped, decanted and poured. Fair amount of sediment. Shockingly good. Light ruby with no browning. Beautiful cherry nose. Refined soft blended palate of earth, cedar, coffee, tobacco and cherry. Just beautiful and puts a fair number of 82 Bordeaux that I have tried to shame.
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7/20/2007 - bestdamncab Likes this wine: 96 Points
Tasted five Tinto Pesquera this evening, a special thanks to Joe Fitzpatrick for sharing. Very nice old smokey coffee and tobacco flavors on the nose, more of the same on the palate, long finish, clearly the winner tonight.
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