This is fully mature and stylistically a bit like CVNE's Imperial: An elegant smooth wine with warm earthy aromas -- classic semi-modern Rioja. Much younger than the bottle in 2012. Very nice but lacks the complexity to be great.
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- Aromas of raisin and smokey. It's lacking fruit and has flavours of raisin and smokey with a medium body. Satin-Like texture with a medium finish - Too soft but stil quite drinkable
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Seemed to be living dangerously, with a nose that at first was fragrant with the characteristic hay aroma of bottle aged red wine, then more sherry-like, almost oxidised. In the mouth it retained its fragile beauty of airy old-fashioned Rioja with a slight sweetness; and it never died. Much older than the 1999.
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Tasted at some friends' place. Elegant mature colour. Immediately pleasant efter opening, smooth, easy-drinking old-fashioned Rioja that stands up well to food. Keeps well, no haste.
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3/27/2015 - DK Amateur wrote:
This is fully mature and stylistically a bit like CVNE's Imperial: An elegant smooth wine with warm earthy aromas -- classic semi-modern Rioja. Much younger than the bottle in 2012. Very nice but lacks the complexity to be great.
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4/3/2014 - Simonea2777 wrote: 84 Points
- Aromas of raisin and smokey. It's lacking fruit and has flavours of raisin and smokey with a medium body. Satin-Like texture with a medium finish - Too soft but stil quite drinkable
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2/4/2012 - DK Amateur wrote:
Seemed to be living dangerously, with a nose that at first was fragrant with the characteristic hay aroma of bottle aged red wine, then more sherry-like, almost oxidised. In the mouth it retained its fragile beauty of airy old-fashioned Rioja with a slight sweetness; and it never died. Much older than the 1999.
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1/29/2011 - DK Amateur wrote:
Tasted at some friends' place. Elegant mature colour. Immediately pleasant efter opening, smooth, easy-drinking old-fashioned Rioja that stands up well to food. Keeps well, no haste.
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