Community Tasting Notes 5

• Burgundy Al wrote: 87 points

  June 30, 2020 - Lots of intense black cherry with clear old vine concentration, but much too modern and oaky, and also too tannic for current enjoyment, even though tannins softened with food. Not my cup of tea.

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• Snoski62 Likes this wine:

  February 10, 2020 - Deep red color with "sticky" legs. Menthol on the nose when first approaching, then fruit and floral scents emerge. Light mouthfeel with red fruits and currant giving way to subtle spice and leather notes. Silky finish, with well integrated tannins. Seems like it is in a good place...

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• garambler Likes this wine: 91 points

  April 7, 2018 - I opened this when friends dropped by for beef stew on 4/7/18. It had a rich, powerful bouquet of black cherry, leather, mocha, cocoa, vanilla and spice aromas. The palate was tight, dry and well structured with flavors that followed the nose.

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• Bob Sacamano Likes this wine: 92 points

  October 13, 2017 - Dense core of silky fruit. A bit of unresolved dry tannic grip intrudes on what would otherwise be a spectacular Ribera.

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• wine30flight Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 8, 2017 - The 2011 vintage of the same wine we drank with the winemaker on the steps of his bodega as the sun went down, the Ángel is a higher end selection from Bodegas Arrocal in village of Gumiel del Mercado in Spain's Ribera del Duero. A mix of blueberry jam and bright red stone fruit with a little rough and tumble rusticity and for a highly dynamic nose. There's also a dusting of dark chocolate that turns into a harder dark chocolate, cacao, on the palate. It's cool and juicy, like biting into a juicy piece of fruit. It curiously mellows out while taking on additional structure once opened for thirty minutes. Beautiful balance of rusticity, jamminess, and blueberry accents make this a classic Ribera del Duero that we'd recognize as such in a blind tasting.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type Red
• Producer Bodegas Arrocal
• Varietal Tempranillo
• Designation Angel
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Castilla y León
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Ribera del Duero
• UPC Code 8437005780033

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• In Cellars 50 (40%)
• Consumed 75 (60%)

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