Dark purple color, resiny black cherry aromas, a sour cherry taste, rounded texture, and a high acid finish with a slight acid burn going down the esophagus. While still enjoyable, somewhat disjointed instead of being seamlessly integrated.
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Needed opening 2-3 hours before to fully open. Had pleasant, dark, earthy, lightly spicy medium intensity aromas of dusty vanilla infused raspberries, olives, blackberries and mulberries with light strawberry hints. Its medium bodied juicy and nicely concentrated palate has the same earthy black fruits and coffee-ish oak intermingled with racy acidity. Ends short to medium long and refined. Traditional. Drink up!
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Thirteen years old, but still a lot of life in this brilliantly well-balanced Rioja; bold aromas of olive, leather, and cedar, but also a joyful kick of red currant tang and deeper red fruits, then pleasantly rich on the palette with good, if not great, length; sophisticated without being brooding, old-fashioned with admirable modern touches.
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5/26/2016 - Mossrose wrote: 88 Points
Dark purple color, resiny black cherry aromas, a sour cherry taste, rounded texture, and a high acid finish with a slight acid burn going down the esophagus. While still enjoyable, somewhat disjointed instead of being seamlessly integrated.
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9/25/2015 - macaujames wrote: 88 Points
Needed opening 2-3 hours before to fully open. Had pleasant, dark, earthy, lightly spicy medium intensity aromas of dusty vanilla infused raspberries, olives, blackberries and mulberries with light strawberry hints. Its medium bodied juicy and nicely concentrated palate has the same earthy black fruits and coffee-ish oak intermingled with racy acidity. Ends short to medium long and refined. Traditional. Drink up!
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12/25/2014 - Ahoof Likes this wine: 89 Points
From a 4 litre bottle, drunk at Christmas, this was a great accompaniment to turkey and all the trimmings
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7/20/2014 - mjwstickings Likes this wine: 89 Points
Thirteen years old, but still a lot of life in this brilliantly well-balanced Rioja; bold aromas of olive, leather, and cedar, but also a joyful kick of red currant tang and deeper red fruits, then pleasantly rich on the palette with good, if not great, length; sophisticated without being brooding, old-fashioned with admirable modern touches.
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11/25/2013 - JGinMO wrote: 89 Points
Good value, it's definitely worth a conversation while drinking. Hour of air did it good.
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