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1985 Viña Salceda Rioja Conde de la Salceda Gran Reserva
4/13/2024 - Cofxc Likes this wine: 88 Points
Fully orangey, heading toward browning. Quite light, elegant. A lovely, giving, nose of sweet tobacco, leather and soil. That sweetness and acidity of aged traditional Rioja though nicely in balance here. Hangs in there through the bottle very well. Just a touch dusty, unclean with no obvious fault. I don't regard it as flawed. 12.5%. JR glass.
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1995 Bodegas Carlos Serres Rioja Gran Reserva
4/10/2024 - Cofxc Likes this wine: 92 Points
Pale garnet. Cherry (I would have had it down as a Sangiovese at this point). A little raciness. With time no discernible fruit. All about the tertiary, leather, tobacco, hint of sweet tobacco. The sweetness and acidity in balance. Both present and correct (as one would hope for a traditional Rioja) but neither shouting. A touch of tannin. 91-92 for this bottle at this time. With the move from fruit, whilst the sense of a little richness drops, the wines ages over a few hours and you can imagine its arc waining beyond the last sips. 12.5%. JR glass.
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2015 Château Chasse-Spleen
4/8/2024 - Cofxc wrote: 86 Points
Deep, dark garnet. Black cherry, kirsch, a hint of kernel. A sense of graininess on the nose. The black cherry follow through. Clean, quite smooth and elegant in a dry frame. Balanced. No particular appeal for me at the moment but time in hand to improve. Halve. 13.5%. JR glass.
Note taken towards the end on PnP was all char, rubber, furniture polish. The latter stayed a bit.
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