2010 Bodegas Ateca Calatayud Atteca Old Vines

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 89.3 points

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  9/29/2018 - ricard Likes this wine: 92 Points

  High altitude (915m) century-old Garnacha. Ambitious, powerful, intense wine in the "modern" (but now unfashionable!) style. Phenomenally alluring nose of crushed blackberries, truffles and liquorice - but also of cream and oven-fresh pastry. Good freshness, restraint on the oak, softening tannins. Velvety mouthfeel, surprisingly gentle for its huge 15% ABV. Good spice along with the fruit - nutmeg, dry-roasted cumin seeds. Pretty serious stuff - not for amateurs.

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  4/30/2018 - ricard Likes this wine: 91 Points

  I've had this a few times now and have enjoyed it. I don't think it was showing very well this evening. Raspberry aromas, some leather and wood, maybe a touch too sweet and not enough acidity to offset it, but quite a good expression of Monastrell. The tannins are softening early in its life too, so I think this doesn't have the longevity I was hoping for. Unfortunately we also drank it a few degrees too warm. In any case, a decent "big" wine for a meaty supper on an unseasonably chilly spring night.

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  11/30/2013 - Zweder wrote: 89 Points

  The vines of this wine are 60 years old. The wine offers some slate minerality, red as well as dark fruits, herbs and spiciness and a good balance between acidity and sweetness. A really nice wine with a good qpr.

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  8/8/2013 - cmr Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Wow .. this is really a great vintage for this wine. Was very refined and smooth, everything coming together very nice .. smokey, fruity perfectly balanced. Outstanding.

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  7/16/2013 - garambler wrote: 89 Points

  I had this with a cheese plate on 7/16/13. It had an intense, very ripe bouquet of black cherry, licorice, cola and spice aromas. The palate was ripe, rich and dense with a touch of residual sugar and flavors of black cherry, blackberry, cola, cocoa, licorice and spice.

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