2010 Bodegas Arrayan Méntrida Estela de Arrayán

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  7/14/2018 - srh Likes this wine:

  Spanish Reds (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): 55% Syrah, 20% Merlot, 15% C.S., & 10% Petit Verdot; 14.0% ABV; 382 cases made
  
  N: Closed; Seems ripe
  
  P: Med body; NICE, almost swtish frt met by puckerish tannins which, while coated by the still ample frt at least part of the way through the LONG finish, the ULT sesation *is* quite a drying one. Though I've varied in my tastings as to how LONG to cellar this, I'm now thinking [basically corroborated by a fellow taster] it NEEDS into, poss through, '20, & even then will do best with a STOUT cut of meat in order to mitigate those drying tannins. My EXC-. 95 pts Suckling, 93 Guia Penin, & 15.5/20 El Mundo Vino. [This vendor's $29.95 is NOW $2 > than the only other currently listed U.S. source on wine-searcher.]

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  4/28/2018 - srh Likes this wine:

  Spanish Reds (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): 55% Syrah, 20% Merlot, 15% C.S., & 10% Petit Verdot; 14.0% ABV; 382 cases made
  
  N: Attractive JAM with minerals, rest tough to parse
  
  P: MF body; RNDISH entry with NICE, ALMOST swtish frt met by some very, VERY finely tannic astringency which CERTAINLY loses its bite by the LONG, balanced finish with a pleasant swtness to the few remaining very, VERY fine tanins. DESERVES through '18, then drinking for 3+ yrs more. My EXC-, poss EXC. 95 pts Suckling, 93 Guia Penin, & 15.5/20 El Mundo Vino. [This vendor's $29.95 is now the only currently listed U.S. source on wine-searcher.]

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  1/13/2018 - srh Likes this wine:

  Spanish Reds (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): 55% Syrah, 20% Merlot, 15% C.S., & 10% Petit Verdot; 14.0% ABV; 382 cases made
  
  N: RIPE, plummy, poss some pyrazines?
  
  P: Med, poss MF, body; NICE, almost swtish frt QUICKLY met by a finely tannic, yet almost swtish, pucker which pretty much extends through the LONG, still ALMOST puckerish, very, VERY finely tannic finish. Deserves/NEEDS until '20, then should drink nicely for 4 or 5 yrs more. My VG+/EXC-. 95 pts Suckling, 93 Guia Penin, & 15.5/20 El Mundo Vino [This vendor's $29.95 is $3 < than the only other currently listed U.S. source on wine-searcher.]

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  11/11/2017 - srh Likes this wine:

  Spanish Reds (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): 55% Syrah, 20% Merlot, 15% C.S., & 10% Petit Verdot; 14.0% ABV; 382 cases made
  
  N: RIPE berries with notes of vanilla
  
  P: LM, poss M, body; Rndish entry with ALMOST swtish frt met by a very, VERY finely tannic pucker which somewhat resolves by the LONG, bitterSWT finish with notes of those very, VERY fine tannins from time to time. NEEDS through '19, I suspect, then drinking for the following 3 or 4 yrs more. NICELY done! 95 pts Suckling, 93 Guia Penin, & 15.5/20 El Mundo Vino [This vendor's $29.95 is $3 < than the only other currently listed U.S. source on wine-searcher.]

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