2006 Condado de Haza Ribera del Duero Crianza

Community Tasting Notes (135) Avg Score: 89.1 points

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  4/6/2023 - SAND wrote: 89 Points

  NOSE: Earthy, leathery notes. Slightly overripe red fruit (dried and ripe fresh dark plums) vanilla. Lovely nose. (89-90p)
  TASTE: Mature, almost sweet fruitiness, nice tannins.Fairly long aftertaste. (89p)
  OVERALL: Drinking very nicely, perfectly mature, benefits from at least 1 hour of airing. TOTAL SCORE 89 points.

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  2/11/2021 - Winiac wrote: 92 Points

  A solid wine with ripe fruit and solid structure. Intense flavors of forest leaves, black tea and dark dried berries. Luscious with definite delicious factor. It is at is peak.

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  7/6/2020 - SAND Likes this wine: 90 Points

  APPEARANCE: Medium to deep garnet colour. Quite a bit of very fine sediment. 14.0% vol.
  NOSE: Rich, almost sweet leather aroma and cedar wood / sigarbox, almost Brett-like. Ground dark roast coffee. Black currants (berries as well as their leaves), black berries, blueberries, graphite. The shoie polish notes of earlier days are thankfully gone, indicating that the abundant oak may finally have integrated. With air the leather/cedar/Brett notes intensify, but in a nice way. (90-91p)
  TASTE: The arrival is rather sweet and dominated by very mature fruit notes. The oak catches up towards the end of the taste curve, with rather plush oak notes and rounded tannins. The finish and aftertaste, while retaining the sweet ripe fruit, is just a little watery compared to the mid palate. All along there's a rather fresh and refreshing acidity which carries the wine and helps it not become plump and just another over extracted, over oaked Ribera wine. These main taste elements are not completely and harmoniously integrated but it is much better than when I last tasted it in 2010. Lots of sweet, mature fruit. Quite tasty and moreish. (90p)
  OVERALL: One of the rarer examples (in my book) of very ripe grapes, high extraction and rich oak dosage actually coming together in the end to create a reasonably integrated and harmonious whole. Well done. I think this will keep but am not sure if it will benefit from further ageing (drink by 2022). TOTAL SCORE 90 points.

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  9/3/2018 - kosmik Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Excellente tenue.
  Reflets orangés.
  Tertiaire présent. Tanins relativement fondus mais avec encore un peu de grip. Belle acidité qui tend le vin et donne envie de revenir.
  L’ensemble est très homogène, excellent et ne se bonifiera certainement plus.
  Notre dernière.

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  12/21/2017 - VoteferPedro Likes this wine:

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  bought case on release and lost this one somehow but it was great stil
  my nose is off but went great with some Argentinian food
  Wife loved it which only happens with outstanding wine

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