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• T.E.D. wrote: 93 points

  May 8, 2019 - Beautiful aged Rioja - with quintessential elements of tart fruit, orange peel, spices, crushed flowers and cloves. Opens up fast and goes down even faster.

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• SARED Likes this wine: 93 points

  September 21, 2018 - Needs to be decanted and open in glass to soften up

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• PSPatrick wrote: 90 points

  April 17, 2016 - With Darryl and Larissa, for Darryl’s birthday. The filling-level was top shoulder. I confirm Zorg’s experience, the cork was loose and it would have been easy to push it down into the bottle. It broke, but did not crumble and came out in two pieces. The wine was medium garnet in colour, with and orange tinge, orange towards the edges, and it threw some sediment. It offered orange, burned caramel, mushroom, some leather, tobacco and balsamic notes on the nose. On the palate the wine showed oranges, red fruit, red cherry, mushroom, tobacco, spices and hints of cinnamon and vanilla as well as balsamic notes, with lively, medium-plus acidity, fully resolved tannin and very good length. The light- to medium-bodied wine seemed a slightly thin; it was sweetish on the entry and sour and a little drying on the finish. Tasted pre-dinner it was O.K. and sort of nice and vaguely reminiscent of great, old Riojas if a little thin, tasted with BBQ sauce spare ribs it was overpowered by the sauce and tasted bland, tasted with blank spare ribs (no BBQ sauce) it showed best, became fuller, with more harmonious acidity. Overall a nice, fully mature Rioja. Considering that this bottle was very well preserved and you will probably not find many better bottles of this 1982 I would recommend drinking now.

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• Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 96 points

  March 26, 2016 - Fabulous aged rioja. Perfect acid backbone with lots of secondary black fruit, raisin, chocolate, and spice. Mellowed after an hour and lost some structure but still very enjoyable especially considering it's not even a reserva.

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• Los 12 Glotones Likes this wine: 92 points

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  De color rubí granatoso de capa media-alta, oscuro, algo más tapado incluso que la cosecha de 1981. Reflejos rojizos y anaranajados, mate, sin apenas brillo. Borde mínimo, cobrizo, con marcada diferencia respecto al menisco. Soprendente por su fuerte extracción. Parece un Murriete Reserva recién salido al mercado.
  
  Aromas de buena intensidad, perfilado desde el inicio. A primer golpe de nariz se aprecia una predominio absoluto de hierbas aromáticas, laurel, salvia, que nos van dejando entrever de forma cada vez más nítida una carga excepcional de fruta roja muy madura de fondo y un atisbo de flores ajadas. Salen apuntes de ciruelas pasas, orejones, escaramujos infusionados, mondaduras secas de naranja... Al ir respirando se va aligerando y mostrando cada vez mayor pureza y hasta una cierta "juventud" a fruta carnosa, madroños, granadas, guindas en licor. Generoso, amplio, expresivo, muy agradable. En todo momento mantiene una finísima pátina de maderas viejas con un tostado pefumado de calidad (café molido, cacao en polvo).
  
  En boca está aún joven!! Grueso, lleno, sabroso, con un deje de fruta dulzosa que fulmina su acidez desbocada. Potente, muy del estilo 82, especiado, con amargosos intensos, falto de equilibrio y redondez, pero de una fuerza desafiante. Mantiene los colmillos afilados, un taninos firmes, marcados, que elevan el conjunto. Le va a ir bien unos años más de botella pero tendremos que estar atentos. Última añada comercializada de Etiqueta Blanca por Murrieta, y una de las mejores.
  
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  50% tempranillo, 40% garnacha, 10% mazuelo - 12.9% vol.
  Permanece durante 12 meses en depósitos en los que realiza la fermentación alohólica. Tras la fermentación maloláctica reposa antes de pasar a criarse en madera. El vino es trasegado y madura durante 24 meses en barricas usadas de roble americano de 225 litros. Sometido a 2 trasiegas anuales. Filtrado con membrana antes de ser embotellado. Un mínimo de 18 meses de guarda en botellero en los calados de la bodega antes de ser comercializado.
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• Vintage 1982
• Type Red
• Producer Marqués de Murrieta
• Varietal Tempranillo Blend
• Designation Ygay Etiqueta Blanca
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• Country Spain
• Region La Rioja
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• Appellation Rioja

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• In Cellars 68 (65%)
• Consumed 37 (35%)

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