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• melvinyeowq wrote: flawed

  January 23, 2023 - Casual wine dinner at De Golden Spoon Seafood: Completely oxidised.

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• blank blank wrote:

  April 29, 2021 - Red fruit, herbs, acid. Still surprisingly fresh, though it shows its age with some brown sugar. The American oak is invisible. Terrific with food. Not profound but really nice.

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• cmbond Likes this wine: 94 points

  May 3, 2020 - A perfectly clean bottle of 45 year old Rioja.
  Drank out of Riedel burgundy glass, virtually no reductive elements when popped and poured and minimal sediment.
  Bricking color but still a pure garnet core.
  Nose of strawberry, dried cherry, roses, saddle leather, spice and perhaps a touch of lifted crab apple or menthol.
  Palate still plenty of fruit considering the age with strawberry, cherry, cut wood, roses, fennel seed and cinnamon.
  Medium acid, tannin fully resolved, virtually no alcohol, long finish.
  Awesome, can't believe how clean this bottle was. Drinking in its prime.

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• BillBell73 Likes this wine:

  February 20, 2020 - A very nice older rioja...a little better than average for this age. Bricked around the rim. Initial pickle juice aroma blows off with air, decaying leaves, smoke, tobacco, prunes, and plums on the palate.

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• salil wrote: 91 points

  October 5, 2015 - Leo's Blind Tasting Group - Oct '15 edition (Ben's): Very pretty, fully mature and drinking very nicely now. Lots of complexity here, with an array of spices, dried flowers, old wood, and red apple fruit on the nose and palate, and more savoury soy and other umami flavours emerging with a bit more air. It comes across a touch soft on the palate, without the same level of acidity and focus as the '75 Viña Real, but still a really great bottle.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1975
• Type Red
• Producer C.V.N.E. (Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España)
• Varietal Tempranillo Blend
• Designation Imperial Gran Reserva
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region La Rioja
• SubRegion La Rioja Alta
• Appellation Rioja

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• Pending Delivery 3 (2%)
• In Cellars 69 (43%)
• Consumed 87 (55%)

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