2016 Bodegas Emilio Moro Ribera del Duero Malleolus

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 91.0 points

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  1/13/2024 - Zorg wrote:

  Coravin. Pronounced tannins, dark fruits, plum, oak, spices and more. Big and bold but balanced and with the volume turned down. 91 p.

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  5/18/2023 - PLLU Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Nose: Blackberries, blue fruit, leather and a touch of dry herbs.
  Taste: long and complex with integrated oak, bluefruits.
  I really love this wines

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  5/13/2023 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points

  100% old-vine Tinto Fino aka. Tempranillo. Fermented and macerated for 18 days in stainless steel tanks. Aged for 18 months in French oak barrels. 14% alcohol.
  
  Deep and quite opaque blackish-red color with a faint, subtly youthful blueish hue. The nose feels very intense with bold aromas of ripe dark fruits, some green minty lift, a little bit of toasty oak spice, light brambly black raspberries, a hint of anise and a touch of sweet blueberry. The wine is ripe, chewy and quite dense with a very full body and intense, slightly sweet-toned flavors of juicy black cherries and dark plums, some minty green notes, a little bit of cassis, light toasty notes of sweet oak spice and chocolatey mocha character, a hint of extracted woody bitterness and a touch of gravelly minerality. Despite its rather huge size and obvious ripeness, the wine shows impressive sense of structure with its pretty high acidity and ample, quite grippy tannins. The finish is rich, juicy and moderately grippy with a long, somewhat sweet-toned aftertaste of succulent black cherries, some toasty notes of sweet oak spice and chocolatey mocha character, light juicy blackcurrant tones, a little bit of extracted woody bitterness, a hint of plum jam and a touch of minty greenness.
  
  This is a big, very ripe and noticeably concentrated super-Tempranillo made in a modern, polished style. It does have its redeeming qualities, though: the fruit intensity manages to cut through the toasty oak quite effortlessly, and even if the wine is quite big and ripe, it does pack surprising freshness and sense of structure with its acidity and tannins. This still isn't my style of wine, but who knows - maybe the wine could turn into something more interesting after another dozen years or so, if the oak integrates better with the fruit and the wine moves out from its youthful, quite fruit-forward phase into a more savory, developed phase? Or then the wine just does the "South American prestige wine trick", ie. remains more or less unchanged - as if in a time capsule - for a decade or two, then just falls apart. Go figure. Priced somewhat according to its quality at 30,32€.

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  2/24/2023 - tbrader wrote: 91 Points

  Well structured. Oak, plum, olives, green pepper in a fairly tight bundle.

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  10/15/2022 - Dinamarca wrote: 92 Points

  Fremragende. Sæt den på karaffel 5-6 timer, så giver den virkelig value for money. Har fortsat et langt liv foran sig +5-8 år.

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