1995 Monasterio de S. Pedro de Cardena Vino de Mesa Tinto Valdevegon Seleccion Mio Cid

Community Tasting Notes (4) Median Score: 90 points

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  4/3/2018 - cvdeluca wrote: 90 Points

  Earth and red fruit, very nice acidity. Very tasty with a Spanish tortilla after about an hour decant.

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  8/6/2015 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 90 Points

  Double Blind Tasting w/ DC Crew (Weygandt Wines - Washington, D.C.): Juicy red color. Nose of red plums, earth, mixed herbs, black pepper. Medium acid, firm tannins but fine around the edges. Juicy red fruit, tamed by age but still bright, with notes of earth, mushroom and peppery spice. Was really impressed to see this wine was a Spanish red from a monastery. A really fascinating wine. I made a totally unconfident guess that this was a mid 90s Chateauneuf. I wasn’t surprised to see it was such a unique wine. Definitely fun to taste double blind, but a really interesting and intriguing experience most of all.

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  5/8/2015 - OregonLoafer Likes this wine:

  Difficult to rate. Very interesting. Incredibly acidic, perhaps with a bacterial edge. I imagine these have a good amount of bottle variation given the allegedly super-old-school techniques at work here. At $25, I'm tempted to buy more not because I enjoyed it so much, but because it was a pretty fascinating experience and I'm curious to see how a different bottle tastes, and how it would taste in several more years.
  
  If you manage to find it, buy it - it's not expensive, it's very old, and the story behind it is worth it by itself. Plus, the wine's pretty good (I didn't drink with food, but that may tame the acidity).

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  10/25/2014 - WineSpiritual wrote: 95 Points

  The 1995 Gran reserva ,has a Superb way to enter your palate with its highly toasted hints of dark fruit and chunk,funky earth, a medium + body with a a portfolio of Aromas that will make you want to swirl and smell it for as long as the bottle will last filled, It's a porch-and-best friend kind of wine that will elevate your taste buds if it is consumed with a smoked JAMON (HAM) or a Lamb Shank. although my wine preference lies within the sacred ground of the Rhone Valley. This MONK WINE does what the faithful monastic folks on the monastery intended when they made this wine......a religious experience that will make you live for a few seconds within a mental silent retreat of wine Ecstasy and you will add a few seconds to this experience if you think that " Valdevegon tastes not like the most expensive Rioja it tastes like a Valdevegon ,a category of its own and a state on mind that Only wine lovers understand

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