2015 Casar de Burbia Mencía Bierzo Heritage

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 90 points

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  12/8/2020 - Hermosabritdad Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Nice surprise and a classic Spanish wine that is excellent from a price to quality POV. Medium ruby in color with some garnet at the edge. Takes a little for the nose to show it’s medium intensity of red fruits - red plum and raspberry. Nice notes of dried herbs and light white pepper spice too. No idea what oak regiment it has had but secondary notes of cedar and even a touch of tertiary hint of wet leaves and maybe caramel? Palette is dry, medium acidity and low tannin. Medium alcohol, medium + body and flavors of raspberry. Medium finish. Overall still very fresh despite 5 years in age, while revealing some nice depth and great complexity. If you can be patience when opening let it do it’s stuff - this wine is all about the nose - it takes about an hour to really shine. Two hours on and the leather and spices really show on the nose: lovely! Overall great stuff at less than $20 a bottle makes this fab value. Going to keep hunting for more medium aged Mencia from Bierzo.

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  6/18/2019 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  With spice and fleshy minerality, The place is apparently like Lord of the Rings. Crazy. CLean and bright spice with some solid mid palate weight. Tasty.

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  10/28/2018 - BrownCellar Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Give this wine an hour of glass time or open before it tastes like it should

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