Community Tasting Notes (64) Avg Score: 90.8 points

  • A blend of Tempranillo (80%), Garnacha (15%), Mazuelo and Graciano, the grapes sourced from the El Bosque vineyard. Fermented spontaneously in old and very large oak fermenters, aged for 5 years in barrels and then for a further 3 years in bottles before release. 13% alcohol. Tasted in a Bosconia 2011-2002 vertical.

    Deep and moderately opaque blackish-red color. Somewhat restrained, quite ripe and nuanced nose with aromas of dark forest fruits, some dusty old wood, a little bit of licorice root, light ferrous notes of blood, juicy hints of black raspberries and black cherries, a touch of sun-baked earth and a whiff of balsamic richness. The wine is moderately ripe, dark-toned and somewhat evolved with a light-to-medium body and dry flavors of crunchy cranberries and brambly black raspberries, some savory wood spice, a little bit of sour cherry bitterness, light funky notes of animale, a hint of licorice root and a ferrous touch of blood. The nice acidity feels fresh and high, whereas the tannins come across as very gentle and easy. The finish is dry, long and crunchy with savory, somewhat evolved flavors of tart cranberries and lingonberries, some ferrous blood notes, a little bit of mushroomy earth, light woody notes of old oak spice, fruity hints of black raspberries and black cherries and a touch of balsamico.

    A nice, fresh and fine-tuned Rioja from a lighter vintage. Seems to be lacking a bit in substance compared to the other vintages we tasted, but otherwise coming across as wonderfully nuanced and extremely old-school by any standards. Not a big or impressive Rioja by any means - even for a Bosconia this is a quite restrained and even a bit lean effort - but with its sense of balance, freshness and elegance, this is a lovely food wine by all means. I feel the aging potential is a bit limited here, so while the wine might continue to improve for some years more, I really don't feel it calls for any additional aging. It's in a great spot right now - but it will keep just fine for years more. Terrific value at 20,20€.

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  • I suppose I'll never really love Spanish reds--even with the oak pretty resolved here, it remained obvious to me in some sense. But this was good and in its drinking phase now.

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  • Pleasant - the nose had a sweet, lifted cherry aromas alongside whiffs of fragrant cigarette smoke and menthol, all riding on a bed of earthy tones. The palate had mature sweet dried cherry flavours alongside a bed of earthy mineral, spice and smoke curling into a decent finish. Fresh blood orange acidity, fine tannins and a linger of sweet American oak toast filled up the rest of the palate into a decent finish. An enjoyable wine, if just a touch on the lean side, drinking nicely now.

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  • En perfecto estado de revista, mezcla de vino añejo y sutil fruta aun viva.

    Cueros, cerezas, ollín....un desfile de aromas, intenso y bastante abierto, unas vueltas en la copa y empieza el festival.

    Lo mejor la boca. Increiblemente fina pero a la vez concentrada, un bisturí. Acidez maravillosa y un agarre en la boca de gran vino.

    Comprado en La Guardia hace un par de años ayer fue el momento de gozarlo, mucha curiosidad por ver su evolución en esa rara añada 2002. Sorprendente, la pena no poder encontrar ya más botellas.

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  • A blend of Tempranillo (80%), Garnacha (15%), Mazuelo and Graciano, the grapes sourced from the El Bosque vineyard. Fermented spontaneously in oak fermenters, aged for 5 years in barrels and then for a further 3 years in bottles before release.

    Somewhat translucent, deep and slightly developed black cherry color with some bricking towards the rim. Quite dry and savory nose - especially compared to the two more fruit-forward vintages 2004 and 2005 that were tasted alongside. There are some notes of ripe dark berries and hints of blackberry marmalade, along with some more savory notes of sour plums, but overall the fruit department feels a bit restrained with notes of soot, tar, some smoke, hints of salty licorice and a touch of mushroomy earth on the fore. The wine is dry, medium-bodied and pretty tightly-knit on the palate with rather savory flavors of licorice, tar, brambly blackberries, some peppery spice, a little bit of wild strawberries, a hint of astringent chokeberries and a touch of cedar. Overall the wine is quite structured with its high acidity and firm, moderately high and quite grippy tannins. The finish is dry, lively and slightly grippy with long flavors of tart dark berries, ripe blackberries, some black pepper and lighter nuances of more exotic spices, hints of dry and cracking leather and a touch of more developed characteristics of mushroomy earth and slightly dried berries.

    This is a pretty savory, somewhat restrained and rather dead-serious vintage of Bosconia, showing less fruit intensity and richness, thus coming across as quite dry, stern and a bit austere. Bosconia usually is lighter and more delicate is compared to Tondonia, but comparing this vintage to vintages 2004 and 2005 felt like comparing Bosconia and Tondonia again. The little oak what Bosconia might show while young was perfectly integrated with the fruit at this point - there were no vanilla notes to speak of and only things reminding of oak were very subtle nuances of cedar - and you could start noticing the first nuances of more developed tertiary character in the background. This particular vintage might never turn out as interesting and long-lived compared to the better vintages, but still this is a very lovely, serious and stylistically so very old-school Rioja, offering much more gastronomic and intellectual pleasure than so many of those modern Rioja Reservas and Gran Reservas the market is flooded with these days. Priced according to its quality at 20,20€.

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  • Gorgeous classic Lopez, but took a few hours in the decanter to really open up. Give it a few more years.

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    De color rubí granatoso de capa media, ligeramente más oscuro que otras cosechas similares. Límpido, sin precipitados. Reflejos rojizos y anaranjados, mate, poco brillo. Borde amplio, azafranado,

    Muy suave, equilibrado, aromático, sacando notas de fruta roja reducida infusionada en maderas envinadas y un resto de marchitos y trasiegas. De carácter extremadamente clásico y muy reconocible. Hay apuntes de confitura de naranja amarga, tabaco rubio, cuero viejo y pimienta ahumada, melaza, moteado de tostados cremosos, cacao en polvo, y un deje vegetal de fondo a esparto y fibras vegetales; algo que curiosamente viene repitiéndose de forma habitual en los primeros años de guarda de las últimas cosechas del Bosconia reserva. Compacto, sin fisuras, muy completo pero con la sospecha de que aún va a necesitar más desarrollo en botella.

    En boca es incluso menos accesible: seco, fresco, dotado de estructura y cierta tanicidad inicial, taninos marcados, amargosos, y una buena cantidad de fruta roja picante. Le falta integrarlo todo para ser un vino redondo. Todavía crudo, lo que puede darle cierta sensación de vino simplón. Se bebe muy bien y se intuye que hay fondo de gran vino pero dista mucho de estar en su mejor momento. Si la bodega pudiera retener estos Bosconia 5-10 años más en bodega antes de venderlos estaríamos ante cañonazos.

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    80% tempranillo, 15% garnacho, 5% mazuelo y graciano. 12.5% vol.
    - Toda la uva es de viñedos propios procedente de la finca el Bosque. Vendimia manual a lo largo de la segunda y tercera semana del mes de octubre. Realiza las fermentacines en viejas tinas de roble de 60 hectolitros sin control de temperatura. Transvasado a barricas usadas de roble americano de 225 litros en las que madura durante 60 meses. Sometido cada año a 2 trasiegas manuales por gravedad, de barrica a barrica. Clarificado con claras de huevos frescos. Embotellado sin filtrar. Producción limitada a 30.000 botellas de 75cl. Un mínimo de 3 años de guarda en botellero en los calados de la bodega antes de ser comercializado.
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  • Bright ruby at the center and brick at the rim. Lovely, lovely developing nose that marries bright yet deep cherry and raspberry fruit aromas with very prominent notes of fresh and dried flowers. Beneath that are mature notes of cigar box, leather, anise, mushroom, smoked meat, and forest floor, as well as some baking spice and toast from the years in oak. So elegant and fine—entrancing stuff. Extremely complex. Every time you go back to it, there’s something different. More of the same on the palate. Incredible intensity of flavor yet lightfooted with a lithe, silky texture. All the fruity, savory, spicy, and earthy flavors are in perfect balance, with great fresh acid brightening the whole thing up and a fine-textured dusting of tannin. Reverberant peacock-tail finish that goes on and on.

    An amazing bottle, even more so considering the cost. I can’t think of another style of wine that could provide this kind of experience in complexity and quality, keeping in mind the age component, for this price, other than traditional Rioja. All things considered, one of my wines of the year. It’s drinking gorgeously right now (obviously), but I’m sure it will continue to evolve and take many more delicious forms before its time is done many years from now.

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  • Nice nose of wet earth/stone (almost like a humid basement), wet clay, soft red fruits. Soft palate of nice blackberries, black pepper, hints of strawberries, red currants, licorice, hints of red tabasco. Overall a very nice wine, everything nicely, and tightly, integrated. Some nice acidity leading into a medium long finish. Mmm, this gets more delicious with time in the glass. A very solid and serious wine at a very very reasonable price. Not a new world fruit bomb. This has those nice secondary mushroom and earth characteristics of an aged old world wine. Still a bit tight. This will develop nicely over the next 5-10 years I predict.

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  • - Crimsom color and aromas of cherry. It's balanced and has flavours of cherry and mint with a medium/full body. Smooth texture with a long finish - Nice nose...opened up in the glass after thirty minutes. Strong cherry flavor. Beautiful body, tight and dry. Bought this bottle from R.Lopez himself.

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  • Tasetd alongside the 2003. The 2002 initally definitely more evolved but came together nicely with some air. Smooth as silk, refined and classy. Juicy acidity. Excellent and very healthy. Drink or hold.

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  • A little bit too port-like.

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  • Wonderful cedar box aromas, dill and still-present warm red fruit. Medium acidity forms a nice backbone with medium-bodied fruit showing its age well. Silky tannins roll off the tongue to a medium length finish. Wonder how my other bottle will taste in a few years?

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  • Unusual, incredible yelow color, still alive ! 11 yeras after....

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  • Funny how great wine is sometimes opened with offensive food, or no food, or in a group, when you cant spend 3 hours in the company of a bottle. If you love wine, its essential one indulge in your own bottle of Lopez from time to time.

    That said, its all here. The clay and orange bricking, feral spices and wood from Columbus'' ships. At once austere but still listening like your BFF. Beguiling, mysterious, and seemingly immortal.

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  • Short impressions: bright garnet, wonderful nose of red fruits and spices, medium body, bright acidity - resolved tannins, silky mouthful, highly drinkable and moreish. Almost burgundian. Drinks well but will definitely hold and improve. Excellent plus.

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  • cheers, I've been drinking a lot of Riojas lately and was looking forward to this bottle. It started fine, my first impression was good, but then it never opened up. In fact after an hour, it tasted a bit flat. 2002 is one of the worst vintages in recent Rioja history and this wine suffered from that. Riojas are a terrific bargain and I did enjoy this wine, but the 2002 isn't worth the money. Buy a different year. Nice color, decent on the nose, nice earthy taste up front, then a slightly metallic flat finish.

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  • Old world style wine - more a symphony than a rock band, with fruit, tannins, and terroir blending harmoniously. Very light texture, almost as light as a French pinot. Red currants, blueberry blend with subtle spices and cigar box. Mild and consistent tannins provide the background music.

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  • Restaurant purchase - note from memory. PNP. Dusty cherries and oak. Splashed into decanter. Color dark garnet. Nose shows a little mustiness, but primarily dense cherry and agree with some medicinal quality. Texture is great with soft mouthfeel and gentle generous finish. Was a perfect match with magret duck breast tonight.

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  • From the get-go this wine stood out, revealing a complex and layered nose: Mushroom, leather and berry jam were at the forefront, accompanied by tea and rhubarb in supporting roles. That's out of the gate; with 20 minutes of air oak and vanilla assert themselves. Forty minutes and the bouquet shifts to cooked pie filling (strawberry) or maybe to the smell you'd find on strawberry hard candy. Once you're past an hour, chocolate begins to show up. By this time the early scents are attenuated, somewhat considerably, but still detectable, especially the jam, rhubarb and leather. The attack is juicy and light (certainly lighter than I expected given some of the heavier notes in the bouquet) with lots of fruit, all dark berries and cherry. The midpalate is consistent with the attack, the berries and cherry (especially the latter) are out in full force but are kept from turning the wine into a one-note wonder by a lovely metallic yet vegetal quality that I associate with steamed artichoke hearts and asparagus. There's also an undertone of star anise that rounds out the midpalate and creates a sort of flavor-triangle that really balances nicely. This wine is tremendously refreshing and eminently gulpable, especially once it's got some air. The finish is long and shows a lot of stamina. The big note was cocoa, lending the finish a pleasantly bitter flavor that was balanced by a rich cured meat quality along with some green olive. I drank this wine with a sandwich made with cotto, black forest ham and provolone with a side of kettle cooked potato chips. I was hoping to test the ever popular claim that Rioja is a great picnic wine. Test passed. The juicy tartness of the wine went head to head with the richness of the meat, cheese and chips while the wine's spice and vegetable notes played well with the seasonings and greens of the sandwich. This is a great wine, and I'm anxious to purchase several more bottles both to explore other pairings and to revisit this wine as it ages through its drink window.

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  • Aromas of graham cracker layered over red berry and cherry fruit, along with earth and leather notes. Medium bodied with a soft and velvety smooth texture. Good acidity to give it nice balance. I didn't hear of anything for Rioja to have a good vintage in 2002, but it's Lopez de Heredia and it's rare for them to make something that I don't like.

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  • Another solid showing, similar comments to prior bottles.

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  • - Crimsom color with medium forming legs. It's balanced with a medium body. Round texture with a medium finish - Classical Rioja with fading crimson color, nice, farm-evoking aromas and a balanced mouth. Finish is shortish, but pleasant. Not a heavy wine, but withgood mature flavours.

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  • Decanted 30mins. Garnet-ruby. More fruit-forward than the Tondonia, as is typical of Bosconia, with a beautiful cherry core, notes of orange rind, and a fantastic gaminess (which element may have carried over somewhat from the American lamb that accompanied the wine). Excellent structure, miles to go, with a plushly elegant mouthfeel, bright acidity, and only very slightly astringent tannins. Nice spice from the American oak, and no longer the dill bomb it was on release with the wood integrating very nicely at this point.

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  • Beautiful old world elegant mouthfeel. Herbs, orange peel, floral, cherry, plum, blood, tabacco, cigar box.. Lots of acid. Citric, gamey notes.

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  • Rich but light on the tongue. Tannin throughout

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  • Really lovely; a core of pretty red fruited flavours tinged by floral and savoury elements on a finessed, medium weight frame. There's bright acidity beneath keeping it very focused and elegant, and it's a remarkably refreshing red.

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  • TTTG (tasted blind, notes from poor memory): Red fruits, wood spice, and a menagerie of savory flavors (Worcestershire/Soy, meat).

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  • Gorgeous in its complexity and balance. Red fruits and earth, plus some other secondary elements, like soy sauce. Delicious.

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  • classic lopez de heredia. elegant, complex, delicious. not a tremendous step up from the vina cubillo at this age, though their differences will take on more significance over time, with the cubillo aging toward the leathery-pruney and the bosconia toward the gamey-earthy, which probably merits the extra ten bucks or whatever here if you're socking some away.

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  • Took a while to open up as the wjne is still a bit young after 10 years. Classic Lopez de heredia notes of red berries, minerally game meat, with earthy undertones.

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  • New year's Eve dinner with Jill and Tom. Drank with grilled skirt steak, salsa Verde, pickled onions, buttered pasta. Wonderful pairing (all agreed). Nice depth and body that held up to the hearty food. Earthy old world goodness. More please.

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  • Fruity inviting bouquet. A bit tight at first, opened up after a couple hours. Light and a bit elusive on the tongue with a hint of barnyard funk but afterwards leaves notes that are characteristic of other Lopez de heredia wines, copper and raspberries.

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  • Intriguing wine. Aromas are barbaresco like. Light and compelling. On the palate it continues with it's light feel. Dried cherries mixed with earth. Finishes with herbs and a bit of oak and sherry. Shows some age but still needs some years. It is always a good thing when a wine leaves you wanting another glass.

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  • muddled purple color, nose med+ intense brandied cherry tobacco pal dry acid med+ int tan med and rough -

    Style: with its pleasant yet assertive nose of sharply brandied cherry this is a full bodied with with deeply spanish masculine flavors and a slightly rustic yet long finish. Pair with grilled meats esp with tomato ...

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  • The last note is spot on, this needs many more years to open up. Currently some smokey red fruits and tea leaf. I question whether this has the stuffing to go long enough to really blossom.

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  • Beautiful brick orange. Spicy nose of American oak, dill, cherry and orange rind; similar on the palate with pure berry fruit, delicate notes of leather and tobacco, lightly astringent tea-like tannins, and a very elegant mouthfeel.

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  • Decanted for 90 Minutes (not really necessary, took a last glass at the end of the evening direct from the bottle). Served at 16 degrees. Good medium colour and attractive floral and fruity nose. On the palate charming with very well integrated tannins and an elegant body. Certainly more for those, whose taste is looking for elegant wines with not too much alkohol (13 %).

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  • Plum juice, raspberries, with a minor caramel hint
    Red berries, black berries with a warm feel to the mouth (not alcohol, acidity)
    Very elegant, not too much oak for a wine 24 months in oak barrels...
    Raspberry juice
    Very long and very round
    Very good
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  • Very nice - caramel and leather/tobacco

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  • Right now, the only thing I can taste is oak. There's a pretty good acidity underneath but this needs a lot more years for the oak to become integrated.

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  • Ruby red. Great nose showing red fruit, herbal notes, florals and some orange peel. This needed to breathe a bit, but once air hit, what a magnificent bottle of wine. Medium bodied and in perfect balance even in this youthful stage. Tart cherry and plum. Tobacco and cinnamon. High acidity and firm tannins. I can reflect on this wine for indeterminate periods of time.

    I have never had a bad bottling from this producer and while these can age seemingly forever, the Bosconia Reserva is a good one to look in on young.

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  • Good but not great. Lovely mid-tones and some forest floor notes. Highish acidity too. Needs air.

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  • Purchased for hotel room NYC corner 42nd & 2nd.

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  • raspberry, black cherry, and currant followed by a yummy tannic pepperspice. lots of flavor here that was well-balanced.

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  • Strong hints of cherry and tobacco, medium bodied, really smooth. Great for every day drinking.

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  • Nice wine but 2001 was substantially better. This too much concentrated for being a lopez de Heredia.

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  • Aromas of red berries, cherries, and oak. Dried red fruit on the palate. Good acidity but not sour. Silky texture with tea like tannins. Need to decant for 2 hours or more.

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  • A lovely daily drinking wine

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  • Just really good. Great balance between fruit and acid and earthy flavors that complemented the apricot/cilantro roast pork we had perfectly.

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  • Delicious at Riverpark with Goldberg and Segal

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  • Really love this wine. Probably needs to integrate the oak more, but the cherry and tar are so outstanding that it will be hard to keep for long. Not an easy food pairing, like a burgundy, barolo, or bordeaux, but more than worth the trouble to make it work. Terrific value.

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  • Needs time - aerated through vinturi and then drank - much better on day 2 (under vacuvin) and with airtime. Medium red color getting clear around edges. Nice nose - cherry / tar / smoke. Palate similar with earthy overtones - Light / medium body, pretty high acidity (excellent with food) and medium+ finish. Tannins very noticable on finish. Was fine tonight but could stand to sit for a while. Would buy again and cellar. 89-91 range.

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  • Thanksgiving '10. To me this was all cherries and oak. Not well integrated. Everyone else liked it. Maybe I needed to decant it. Maybe the wine caught me on a bad day

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  • Tempranillo (80%), Garnacho (15%), Mazuelo and Graciano,
    Not oxidative, nice fruit, mellow, restrained, smooth. Good.

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  • Lopez de Heredia Tour & Tasting (Haro, Rioja): Deep garnet. Mellow, gentle spice and burgundian interest here. Bright and fresh, beautifully transparent fruit. Fresh, long. ***1/2

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  • Decant, needs to breathe. Worth @$25

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  • Tempranillo tasting (Weygandt Wines, DC): More complexity than the 01 but less refined at this juncture. Perhaps it just has more stuffing. Cedar, cherry and sweet tobacco. Some spice but again not as pronounced. Somewhat Bordeauxish with its character but decidedly tempranillo on the profile. On the mouth, there is strength and great depth, but still delicate. This is a wine with great upside.

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  • Nose of dark cherry, cigar, sweet tobacco. Palate of rainer cherry, tobacco, forest floor, chocolate. Really nice mouthfeel.

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  • Dios, Mio, Tempranillo! (Weygandt Wines - Washington, D.C.): the nose on this wine is so bright and attractive. tons of fruit on the palate. big on the cranberries. there's also this great sweet pipe tobacco and leaf aspect highlighting the fruit. you can really taste how well-made this wine is. long finish.

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  • #1 wine, med intensity, garnet, ppr wwm
    nose: med+ intensity, strong mineral and pungent vanilla/oak quallity, a candied violet candy/cherry quality ... like the jam in the middle of a hard candy

    palate: dry, acid is med+ tannin is med and sharp, body med alc est 13.5, finish is med+ -- very delicious, like the jam of a candy but with oak indicated by vanilla

    year: 2006 based on complexity/aging
    old world based on minerals, back fruit,
    possible blend based on hard to understand primary ...
    sense syrah ...

    flavs include black currant, strawberry (jam), rasp jam ... hot region? warm vintage ...
    Tasting note:
    This wine has evolved perfectly showing a deep ruby colour with shades of orange. Its nose is persistent, full bodied and showing a lot of mature fruit, being dominated by the Tempranillo grape. Its taste is round, smooth, fresh, full of body and persistent.
    Grape Varieties:
    Tempranillo (80%), Garnacho (15%), Mazuelo and Graciano, the remainder, all from our own vineyards.
    Ageing period in barrels:
    Barrel: 5 years, being racked twice a year and fined with fresh egg whites.
    Ageing period in bottle:
    Rest, unfiltered, bottled in 75 cl. bottles.
    Alcohol Volume:
    12.5% Vol.
    Total Acidity:
    6.5 g/l.
    Residual Sugar:
    Very Dry.
    Gastronomy:
    Perfect with roasted and highly flavoured meats, lamb and game.
    Storage Tempertaure:
    10 years in perfect conditions of constant temperature (57ºF / 14ºC) and humidity (75-80%).
    Serving Temperature:
    64,5º to 68ºF (18 - 20ºC) always depending on mood and place.
    Quantity made:
    30,000 bottles.

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  • Outstanding, full-bodied, rich, long finish. Bought at the winery and drank at Posada Mayor de Migueloa in Laguardia, Spain.

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