2017 Telmo Rodríguez Valdeorras As Caborcas

Community Tasting Notes (7) Median Score: 87 points

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  2/11/2024 - roboto wrote: 87 Points

  Red plush fruit with fine mouthfeel and overall great structure and balance. There is enough packing but also restrained elegance. The lingering aftertaste becomes somewhat overpowering in bitter dark toasted oak. At first I thought I picked up a nice anise fennel spice, but it is actually more of a dark bitter element that just leaves the entire impression a bit unbalanced. damn. I wanted this to be good. It is good, i mean it's wine and there is filling here. But the impression is somewhat tainted by that dark bitterness at the end.

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  8/23/2022 - oxidatif wrote:

  I love when producers make an expensive wine and then use the shitty wax on the top of the bottle. There’s blue dust everywhere and I’m starting this review off mad.
  
  That said, the nose is delightful: violets, cranberries, blackberries, some subtle oak. Medium body, medium acid, but everything is in balance here. Lots more cranberry, the bitter tannin is playing that angle up. It’s soft leathery tannin but has the flavor of sucking on a black olive pit. Really nice, I just wish it wasn’t so $$.

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  12/6/2021 - Keith Cooper Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Tasted at Tim Syrad Wines Christmas Masterclass, Surrey, UK. A rare opportunity to taste this wine, only 2,000 bottles produced, Mercia, grenache and other varietals. Wooden and clay barrels. Light Burgundian colour. Floral nose. Chewy fruit, velvety, soft. Quite tannic. Needed food, went well with the beef.

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  7/31/2021 - cbilfinger Does not like this wine: 69 Points

  Sour! It only tasted decent after eating a bitter green salad. I will never buy this again.

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  1/30/2021 - jonboy74 wrote: flawed

  Corked

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