Community Tasting Note
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up4wine wrote: 86 points
April 13, 2015 - Spanish Rioja has become an enigma to me. Some bottles excite and bring great pleasure in their consumption. Others from the same source and year are flat. This inconsistency, although adding a heightened sense of Russian roulette unknown, is a huge drawback. It is not just this producer, but several who have taken me to the heights with one bottle and dashed my interest with the next. This bottle was flat with a kick of harshness on the finish. There were hints of greatness on the nose, but these, too, were brought down by the noise of competing blandness and confusion.
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renwine commented:
5/9/15, 8:58 PM - I found this to be true of this particular bottle. One was great, the other just ok. I was about to give up, but I tried their 2006 Reserva (for about $20) and was amazed and have had many bottles that were exactly the same. It could be that the 2001 Gran Reserva is just shut down. Who knows. But when you have a great Rioja it is epic.