2012 Artadi Rioja El Carretil

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91 points

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  6/11/2016 - Collector1855 wrote: 92 Points

  Dark purple. Nose of dark fruit, chocolate, oak, toffee. Soft and ample on the palate, nicely done, but of course a very modern offer. I think everyone who likes these kinds of plush, easy going but well blanced "commercial" wine will like this. Not complicated to understand but lacking a bit of aromatic depth and character.

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  10/12/2015 - SimonG wrote: 90 Points

  BBR Rioja & Catalonia (One Great George Street, London): Similar full-on profile. A touch more mineral perhaps. Again, lots of oomph. *(**1/2)

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  10/16/2014 - Man in Black wrote:

  The wine is clear and bright with a deep ruby colour and presence of legs. The nose is clean and youthful, showing medium(+) intensity aromas of blackberries, dark cherries, dark plums, liquorice, walnuts and hints of vanilla. The wine is dry in the mouth with a medium acidity. It has medium(+) coarse tannins and a medium(+) alcohol. it has a medium(+) body and pronounced intensity flavours of blackberries, dark cherries, dark plums, liquorice, walnuts and hints of vanilla. The finish is long.
  
  It is an outstanding quality wine. It has a great fruit concentration and a lingering finish, a very good balance between tannins and alcohol and it shows some degree of complexity provided by oak ageing. The wine is too young, it needs at least 1-2 years in the bottle to integrate better the prominent fruity aromas and to polish a bit the tannins, but it has enough tannic structure and fruit concentration to develop more complex tertiary aromas over the next 10+ years.

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