Community Tasting Note
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thelinebreak wrote: 90 points
February 14, 2011 - It’s number 44 on The Wine Spectator’s Top 100 wines of 2010. They also gave it 90 points.
It’s 100% Tempranillo
The color is a dark Harvard crimson.
The body is light, and it’s about 60% opaque. (That means I can see through it.)
I smell Spain. I also smell red currants, bacon or prosciutto, and some spices (spicy spices). (My girlfriend gets uncooked sausage on the nose.)
As soon as it touched my tongue, I felt delight. I felt delight as it glided across my tongue and down into my belly. The finish, however, was a little chalky. It’s drier than expected. I definitely taste the red currants, and they are chewy. (My girlfriend gets cooked sausage.)
This would go good with meat or Chinese food.
It’s loosening up. It juicy-ing up. It’s Tempranillo-ing up. This is getting better. Let’s say 89 as a Tempranillo, and 90 as a wine, if that makes sense. I mean, what I’m trying to say is, “You gotta drink this wine sideways, at an angle, but straight into the mouth. Kinda like you do with a cigarette when you don’t want the drag or smoke to interfere with your view of the person you are talking with or have the smoke get in the way.”
For a full review: http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/in-pursuit-of-the-juiciest-wine-day-eighty-four/6,317 views