1942 Bodegas Riojanas Rioja Viña Albina Reserva

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  9/10/2022 - steinersing wrote: 88 Points

  Slightly oxidized bottle but still quite nice with acidity keeping the balance. Another bottle some TCA but fresher.

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  3/2/2021 - yodamark Likes this wine: 100 Points

  In total agreement with other reviews here. this wine is monumental. A phantasmagorical drinking experience and one of the best wines in the world from 1942. Spanish rioja ( tempranillo) at its pure best. Other worldly. A low shoulder bottle and like the 47 Hunter River Claret expectations were low but i knew this wine had previous great reviews. And boy did it perform. Whilst i was enjoying the rarity and curiosity of the 47 , this came into the glass alongside it and burst out of it like a hot stripper from a birthday cake . it immediately denounced the efforts of the 47 next to it as a simpleton and new world loser and showed its old world heritage class including, i well suspect, sticking it right up the noses of any good 42 Bordeaux or Barolo. it oozed full bodied flavor, structure, sweet fruit, spices, i cant even describe it. and its not that important in writing down all the different wonderful facets of the wine , just find a bottle, pay anything for it and give yourself an oral orgasm..
  certainly in the top 10 wines ive ever had. An amazing opportunity. thanks Marky

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  5/9/2016 - Harley1199 Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Classic to the Bone (Restaurant Horcher - Madrid): An extraordinary bottle.
  A bright ruby color, with complexity on the nose and a smooth, delicate and delicious acidity on the palate. Super fragrant yet savoury.
  We did not want to finish the bottle ... eternal. Harmony. True devotion for a work done 74 years ago.
  It is very difficult to find bottles like this, you really believe that?
  
  Una botella extraordinaria.
  De un brillante color rubí, con una inmensa complejidad en nariz y una acidez suave y delicada y deliciosa. Muy fragante y aún así sabrosa.
  No queríamos terminar la botella...eterna. Con armonía. Auténtica devoción por el trabajo realizado hace 74 años.
  Es muy difícil encontrar botellas como esta, ¿de verdad te crees eso?

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  11/13/2015 - etyc Likes this wine:

  Another amazing (in the sense that it's well alive) bottle. Mind-boggling to think that this was bottled during WW2... Tea-leaves, herbs & mushrooms on the nose. With air, red-fruits, spice, leather & smoke emerged on the palate. Truly amazing how long these Riojas last!

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  1/25/2015 - rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: 98 Points

  Bricking dark red violet color; mature, spice, baked cherry, raspberry puree nose; delicious, velvety textured, rich, blackberry liqueur, ripe raspberry, black cherry palate; long finish (14.8% alcohol; great, youthful Rioja, aging glacially as great Tempranillo does)

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