Community Tasting Note

• StefanAkiko Likes this wine: 88 points

  May 12, 2014 - Skränmunkarna May 2014 (Minervaskolan, Umeå, Sweden.): Blinded guess:
  Simple Rioja GR from mid 90'ies.
  
  Dark red with slight signage of beginning maturity.
  Nose is rich with leather and a dominant spicy set of aromas, including: mint, dill, Nepeta and Swedish glögg.
  In the mouth, this is a maturing, non-complex slightly acidic bagatelle. Delicious and goes well with both garlic- and sardine-stuffed olives.
  
  After learning the label: this emperor is naked. A Vega Sicilian face-plant (if you look at the price and pedigree) but a quite delicious wine in the same league as simpler Rioja GR with some age to them.
  
  No high scores from the 'real' chritics, so we concluded that this btl was representative and just accept that 1983 is obviously not a very good vintage of this super hero label. Mega poor QPR but nevertheless delicious.

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