Lopez never maps to the vintage charts, does it? This is one of the most pleasurable Bosconias in years. It has all the trademark feminine, Burgundian elegance but the fruit is warm and still halfway between youthful ripeness and its autumnal stage. It also has a smokiness on the back end that made it a remarkably synergistic, even synaesthetic, wine pairing with applewood smoked vegetables.
Colour: medium(+) ruby Nose: medium(+) intensity, secondary, youthful. Red and black plum, red cherry, strawberry. Leather, earth. Cedar, nutmeg, cinnamon, dark cocoa. Very plush and warm and earthy, like old leather. Palate: dry, medium(+) acidity, medium(-) tannins, medium alcohol (13,5%), medium(-) bodied. Medium(+) intensity, medium length finish. Red and black plum, red cherry, strawberry, cranberry. Leather, earth. Cedar, nutmeg, cinnamon. Fresher and more acid-driven than the nose implies. Conclusions: very good. Can drink now, but suited to further ageing. P&P (pop&pour), not decanted. Seal: natural cork
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Stewed fruit on the nose, Tastes surprisingly old, seems a bit drying out, but this might come round in the glass. Old rioja can do funny thing - though for a Rioja this really isn't very old.
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4/21/2024 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 95 Points
Lopez never maps to the vintage charts, does it? This is one of the most pleasurable Bosconias in years. It has all the trademark feminine, Burgundian elegance but the fruit is warm and still halfway between youthful ripeness and its autumnal stage. It also has a smokiness on the back end that made it a remarkably synergistic, even synaesthetic, wine pairing with applewood smoked vegetables.
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4/7/2024 - Danneskjöld wrote: 92 Points
Flott nå. Tobakk, lær og treverk.
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4/4/2024 - penguinoid Likes this wine:
Colour: medium(+) ruby
Nose: medium(+) intensity, secondary, youthful. Red and black plum, red cherry, strawberry. Leather, earth. Cedar, nutmeg, cinnamon, dark cocoa. Very plush and warm and earthy, like old leather.
Palate: dry, medium(+) acidity, medium(-) tannins, medium alcohol (13,5%), medium(-) bodied. Medium(+) intensity, medium length finish. Red and black plum, red cherry, strawberry, cranberry. Leather, earth. Cedar, nutmeg, cinnamon. Fresher and more acid-driven than the nose implies.
Conclusions: very good. Can drink now, but suited to further ageing. P&P (pop&pour), not decanted.
Seal: natural cork
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3/29/2024 - DMin wrote: flawed
Hairspray, nail polish. Sad.
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3/14/2024 - henrygjeffreys wrote:
Stewed fruit on the nose,
Tastes surprisingly old, seems a bit drying out, but this might come round in the glass. Old rioja can do funny thing - though for a Rioja this really isn't very old.
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