2001 Bodegas Virgen del Águila Cariñena Señorio del Real Gran Reserva

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 85.5 points

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  3/3/2014 - TheWrongAlex wrote: 91 Points

  Tar and plum nose. Tobacco, blackberry flavors with a nice long finish. Still plenty of life in this wine.

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  2/21/2014 - Pour Boy wrote: 80 Points

  Disappointing -- I was expecting so much more from this Gran Reserva. Non-descript nose, thin wine on the palate, no finish. I've had his for three years, so couldn't tell you if it was better in its youth.

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  11/23/2012 - gino'svino wrote: 89 Points

  Wine stll amazingly fresh with a good dark purple color with little signs of aging on the wine despite being 11 years old. Drank during Thanksgiving with turkey and roast pork loin. The wine had a slight sour component that I didn't remember. Still good, but didn't seem to match the meal as well as I hoped. Went well with the cranberry sauce.

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  5/31/2012 - gino'svino wrote: 91 Points

  Came in first in tasting of four 2001 Tempranillo Reserva wines. Smooth yet fresh.

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  12/23/2011 - jpinsb wrote: 92 Points

  I ordered this 2001 in spite of mixed reviews on Cellar Tracker, with numerical ratings ranging from the high 70s to 90 (and posted under two different CT entries for the same wine), hoping that the higher reviews would more accurately describe the wine. I was not dissapointed, except to note that the higher ratings appeared to UNDERrate this wine. This 10-year old wine was not only vibrant in color (deep purple) and fruit (with not a touch of thinness around the meniscus), but seemed to have achieved a near perfect balance of tannins and plum and chery fruit, delicious upon opening and growing over an hour in the glass, with mid to long finish. I reordered a case from winechateau.com before others discovered the same thing. Using the listed rating scale, this is truly an outstanding (90-95 point wine). There's a lot of life left in this one.

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