Deep, dense inky red colour. Tight nose of strawberry and menthol. Dark red fruit flavours and a bit of leather. Big tannins with a long, chewy finish. Enjoyable but still feels young.
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Marvellous together with sirloin-steak, potatoes grilled in owen and garlic-butter! Opens up together with the meat. Classic Rioja, extremely well-balanced. Tastes delicious, lots of dark red fruits. Taste - vanilla, scent of - giving characteristics, raspberry, hidden behind blackberry. Bit leather, bit tobacco, but in a soft way. Still power, curtains midstrong. Afraid we opened it to early!!!
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Great wine! Black licorice, blueberry, pencil shavings. Dark, brooding. Will buy more rioja as this is a rare wine for us to drink and very pleasantly surprised.
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There seem to be contrasting reviews, both on cellartracker and other sites. Yes, there was that woody gran reserva style to the bottle and it was smooth but we found it light and short. Did wonder if it was storage - these came from the Wine Society and into a steady Eurocave. Have a few more bottles so will drink up and see if there's much variation between the bottles
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3/3/2024 - rjsmall Likes this wine:
Deep, dense inky red colour. Tight nose of strawberry and menthol. Dark red fruit flavours and a bit of leather. Big tannins with a long, chewy finish. Enjoyable but still feels young.
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7/22/2023 - Frost Casselbrant’s Cave Likes this wine: 93 Points
Marvellous together with sirloin-steak, potatoes grilled in owen and garlic-butter!
Opens up together with the meat. Classic Rioja, extremely well-balanced. Tastes delicious, lots of dark red fruits. Taste - vanilla, scent of - giving characteristics, raspberry, hidden behind blackberry. Bit leather, bit tobacco, but in a soft way. Still power, curtains midstrong.
Afraid we opened it to early!!!
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3/11/2022 - slabslovin Likes this wine: 94 Points
Great wine! Black licorice, blueberry, pencil shavings. Dark, brooding. Will buy more rioja as this is a rare wine for us to drink and very pleasantly surprised.
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1/3/2022 - shallIshantI Likes this wine: 88 Points
There seem to be contrasting reviews, both on cellartracker and other sites. Yes, there was that woody gran reserva style to the bottle and it was smooth but we found it light and short. Did wonder if it was storage - these came from the Wine Society and into a steady Eurocave. Have a few more bottles so will drink up and see if there's much variation between the bottles
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8/1/2021 - Tige Likes this wine: 90 Points
Conservé couché hors-cellier depuis été 2018. Très à point. Assez classique avec des flaveurs de cuir, boîte de tabac, fruits mûrs. tannins souples.
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