2010 Raul Pérez Rara Avis Prieto Picudo

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  11/18/2023 - ThijsV Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This was in a beautiful spot! Great wine from a great winemaker. Medium intensity on the nose with red and black cherry, kirsch, black currant, figs, dried red fruit, leather, some floral notes, minerality. Medium+ acidity, medium+ (fully integrated) tannins, long velvety finish
  
  This is not going downhill any time soon, but I don’t expect it to further improve

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  5/16/2019 - Stefanos T. Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Wonderful wine!
  Deeply colored, almost opaque.
  Intensely perfumed and pure nose with no sign of oak, quite floral with notes of violets, damson, a trace of dill.
  On the palate it is soft and mellow and concentrated but still supple. Purity of fruit, freshness and good length.
  At a perfect stage to drink but still youthfull.
  An excellent wine from the "rare bird" variety Prieto Picudo.

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  5/19/2018 - SouthernStateofMind wrote:

  Deep purple in color w/aromas of lavender, red/black fruit, bacon fat and Herb de Provence. Richly appointed compote of red/black fruit is accompanied with flavors of game meat, dark chocolate and base minerality. Elegantly constructed and voluminous on the palate; with measured acidity present to counter unctuous fruit. Envelopes the mouth providing long mouth-coating finish. Big wine to cozy up with on a long winter's night and would certainly pair well with a roast meat.

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  5/17/2015 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 91 Points

  A private lunch (Restaurant Etxebarri *, Axpe, Spain): Scented, perfumed nose, soft red berry fruit, spices from the oak (17 months on French barriques), flowers and smoked bacon; the palate is silky and charming, has depth and mineral drive, freshness and a good stuffing of fruit; on the finish there is a slight, distracting note of bitter cocoa powder. Just a hint of brett?

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