Community Tasting Note

• Rangstrom wrote: 93 points

  October 21, 2007 - Brought to dinner at La Tasca with Rob and Brian. The bottle was on ice for the trip in so it was a bit below cellar temperature when opened. Opened at the start of the meal and not decanted; reached full bloom around the two hour mark. Good fill and perfect cork. Youthful looking wine; dark ruby red with no bricking. Bold dark fruits and some earthtones on the nose and the tongue. Good balance, intergated tannins and enough acidic backbone to stand up to the various sausage tapas. Smooth, medium length finish. Clearly I've been remiss in not paying enough attention to what Spanish wines with some age have to offer.
  
  The '06 Fillaboa Albarino was a solid effort and Rob's '87 Vega-Sicilia Valbuena 3 was a real treat.

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• robmatic commented:

  1/26/18, 7:26 PM - I just drank my last bottle of this, and read your tasting note. I thought to myself, what a coincidence that this guy knows a Rob and a Brian. Then I realized that I am the Rob you are referring to, and we drank that bottle together when I was in Chicago for a brief trip! I remember that event well, and the fun of eating great food, drinking great wine, and meeting people along the way who enjoy these things.

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