Community Tasting Note

• oldwines wrote: 89 points

  June 16, 2017 - This "mostly Tempranillo" Gran Reserva shows the unfortunate shortcomings of the grape in my view. While a perfectly respectable wine, enjoyable with spicy or hearty fare, this is one dimensional and lacking in complexity and depth of flavor. For the $50+ price most would have paid for this I would hope for more elegance and definition. It is dark garnet, bordering on purple in color. The nose is all vanilla, vanilla, vanilla from the new oak it spent 24 months in, with just a hint of dark fruit. Even after 5 hours in the decanter there is little development with the oak/vanilla still dominating. Palate is moderately tannic with some black fruit and licorice but little else and no secondary development at this point. Finish is short and uninteresting.

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• ManuKey commented:

  2/3/19, 12:09 PM - I've just opened a 2004 last night and it was fan-tas-tic !
  
  I would not open this vintage before 5-10 years+

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