Community Tasting Notes 26

• Rani Likes this wine: 93 points

  July 1, 2023 - Earthy, restrained. Lots of acidity, cool blueberry and vegetable soup. Very fine soft tannins. Plenty of time left here…

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• Nanda wrote: 92 points

  April 3, 2023 - Off the list at Rekondo. A wine that benefited from air over the course of a long dinner. Gorgeous aromatics from the get go -- sour cherry, herbs, earth, leather and American Oak dill. Palate was a bit lightweight and short to start, but filled out nicely with time. Last glass was the best. At the end of a peak window.

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• FEDEVIDAL Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 15, 2022 - Se abre dos horas antes sin decantar lo que elimina olores sucios de botella y acidez volátil. Color picota oscuro atejado. Aroma intenso, fruta matizada negra con ligera madera, cuero y notas animales, va evolucionando a tabaco de pipa y especies orientales y té. , la fase olfativa es magnifica, equilibrada, y muy viva. La boca es suave, tamizada, sedosa y amable, con taninos fundidos y dulces, cuerpo y estructura medias, acidez perfecta atendida su edad, lo único que podrá decirse es que es menos expresiva que la nariz, a pesar de lo cual hay notas de fruta negra pasificada o seca; en retronasal aparece fruta negra y roja en compota acompañada de terciarios. No tiene capacidad de mejora y si tiene alguna botella no tarde en abrirla.
  
  Sorprende la media tan baja de este vino, y no la comparto en absoluto. Para mí es un vino que ha envejecido magníficamente, muy maduro y con tenencias austeras, y clásicas y que mantiene las características de los grandes reservas de rioja

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• burlingtonm Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 16, 2021 - A lovely, fully mature wine that has aged gracefully with gentle, sweet, refined fruit, notes of damsons, good energy and freshness and still has lots of life ahead.

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• brooklynguy Likes this wine:

  July 30, 2016 - Youthful fruit that is ripe and perfumed with a liquor kind of richness and sap but also balanced with bright acidity. There is a prominent scent of coconut on the nose too. Lovely wine now but very intense wine, feels unresolved, powerful and still coiled up, and I imagine this is just the beginning of its life.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1987
• Type Red
• Producer Marqués de Murrieta
• Varietal Tempranillo Blend
• Designation Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region La Rioja
• SubRegion La Rioja Alta
• Appellation Rioja
• UPC Codes 083664858613, 8411509011305

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• In Cellars 196 (73%)
• Consumed 74 (27%)

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