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• srh Likes this wine:

  June 29, 2019 - Winebar [4 Whites, 8 Reds, & 6 *shared* bottles] from 06/28/19 (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): Arturo, THANK you for including me it your bottle #13679! :)
  
  97% Tempranillo & 3% Albillo harvested manually; “Fermented in barrels & small concrete vats, after which it was aged for 24 mos in 225L FR oak barrels.”
  
  N: RIPE berries with undertones of toast & earth; Intensity lurking
  
  P: Med body; RNDISH entry with NICE, ALMOST swtish frt met by astringent pucker which pretty much resolves by the LONG, poss very, VERY slightly bitterish finish with a potential tangy/swtness to the dusty tannins. NEEDS/deserves through '20, then making its 10th. 14.5% ABV; My EXC-, EXC poss with a bit of cellaring.

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• Keith Levenberg Likes this wine:

  February 22, 2019 - Nice find from PJ's. 97% tempranillo and 3% Albillo from 80-year-old vines aged 2 years in barriques, per the email. It will need time in the cellar, as the first day it's brimming with loads of dry, grainy tannin in a fashion reminiscent of old-style Bordeaux, the fruit taking a back seat. The next day the fruit sweetens up and saturates the structure, picking up that slightly leathery sheen typical of the grape but in a more primary fashion than you'd find in a classic Rioja.

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• Vintage 2014
• Type Red
• Producer Bodegas Peñalba López
• Varietal Tempranillo
• Designation Torre Albéniz Reserva
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Castilla y León
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Ribera del Duero

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• In Cellars 28 (46%)
• Consumed 33 (54%)

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