2000 Casa Castillo Jumilla Las Gravas

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  5/15/2019 - bon vivant wrote: 92 Points

  This was quite tannic at it's youth and while I thought it would improve with age i always wondered if the wine would be balanced when mature -the simple answer is yes. A very nice showing and this exceeded expectations with a nice layering of flavors and spicy smokey touches beyond the dark fruit core. I still prefer the 1999 but the difference now seems less as this has come through nicely with age

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  10/14/2011 - skoppel wrote: 90 Points

  This wine has evolved more with lovely violet overtones coming out with greater complexity. The tannins have subsided and there is now a nice velvety texture on the palate and you drink. Great food wine.

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  8/17/2010 - skoppel wrote: 89 Points

  Typical example of a mouvedre based wine. Tar, licorice are dominant with a blackberry currant theme to the grapes. Purple, inky color, needs beef or game to compliment it best. This is a dark almost heavy wine and you have to like that type of stuff and be in he mood for it. Wine is ready to drink now. It will do well with some air at opening, but if you don't decant it will open nicely in the glass. Should drink well for at least five more years, if not more.

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  8/23/2009 - Jacobus309 wrote: 88 Points

  The wine was still quiet well in shape. Color nice ruby and in the nose lots of red and dark fruit with an elegant taste. Good drinking and must be drunk within the next couple of months. Good price/value

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  12/25/2008 - tcfishler wrote:

  Licorice, red berries and plums, with a hint of surmaturite. Still sweet, bright and juicy in the mouth, with a charcoal-ish accent. Ends with an appropriate amount of tannic dryness. Ever so slightly muddled, but this is balanced in its ripeness and restrained in its oak influence, and should be drinking well for more than a few more years.

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