Community Tasting Notes 10

• Aris1a Likes this wine: 92 points

  June 13, 2023 - A bit tannic up front, but quickly resolving to dried cherries, loquat, quince, ripe peaches, white pepper, and herbal notes of sage and thyme. Very nice. Likely to get better with further aging.

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• AudunG wrote: 89 points

  November 6, 2022 - Dark fruity aromas with less oak than the Azos do Pablo. Elegant, and quite intense and concentrated.

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• forceberry wrote: 93 points

  June 10, 2022 - A blend of Mencia, Merenzao and Mouraton (totaling 70%), the remaining portion rounded out with Alicante Bouschet, Gran Negro and Palomino. The grapes are sourced from multiple 80-100 yo parcels on the slopes on the village of Manzanera in Val do Bibei. 70% of the fruit is destemmed, the remainder vinified in whole bunches. The grapes are foot-trodden, fermented spontaneously, and macerated with the skins for 16 days in 500-liter clay tinajas. Aged for 11 months in 500-liter chestnut and oak casks. Bottled unfined and unfiltered in September 2018 with a minimal dose of SO2. Bottle #2706 of total 4450 bottles. 12,5% alcohol.
  
  Quite deep and almost fully opaque dark cherry-red color with youthful purplish highlights. The nose feels sappy, dry and slightly sauvage with subtly reductive aromas of flinty smoke, some peppery spice, a little bit of crunchy crowberry and brambly black raspberry, light sweeter notes of ripe dark berries, a floral hint of violets, a reduced touch of rubber and a whiff of something inky. The wine is bright, fresh and crunchy on the palate with a light-to-medium body and very intense flavors of tart lingonberries and crowberries, some saline mineral tones, a little bit of phenolic spice, light bitter nuances of chokeberries, a hint of brambly black raspberry and a touch of elderberry juice. The overall feel is wonderfully focused and firm, thanks to the high acidity and gently grippy medium tannins. The finish is dry, fresh and lively with a little bit of tannic grip and a long, crunchy aftertaste of lingonberries and sour cherries, some smoky notes of reduction, a little bit of licorice root, light crowberry tones and a tiniest hint of sweet VA giving making the wine end on a nice, lifted note.
  
  A wonderfully fresh, precise and dead-serious Galician red that is stylistically very similar to a top-tier Cru Beaujolais or a serious Burgundy Pinot Noir, but with its own, Atlantic character. A great combination of intensity, fresh acidity and dry yet fruit-driven taste. The wine doesn't feel at all primary anymore, but the overall impression is still very youthful and most likely the wine will age gracefully for years more - even if it is drinking really well already now. Superb stuff, it's hard not to love it!

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• lolo66 wrote: 92 points

  October 8, 2020 - opened and drank first half on first day. notes for 2nd day as hope there is insight into the aging of this wine. The wine drinks very much the same after 1 hour of air. Very perfumed and floral bright red and bright blue fruits. High toned. light on its feet, but not light in palate or bouquet. This has Beaujolais qualities to it, and is a joy to drink. Very fresh and vibrant. Aging?? Not so sure. There is some nice acidity, but. I would say these are drinking with 5-8 years.

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• baroloboy55-2.0 Likes this wine: 91 points

  June 21, 2020 - This wine is very good and has a terrific future ahead of it. May be my favorite wine in Laura Lorenzo's lineup She doesn't list the grapes in this field blend but the impression is that the mencia composition is relatively low. At this stage the wine benefits from a couple hours of air, and the initial impression is dark, brambly berries with slate underpinnings and a core of grapier mencia fruit. The air helps bring the wine into balance. Voodo_champagne man, you will love this wine, and it does have some fruit from the village of Seaone.

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• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Laura Lorenzo DaTerra Viticultores
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Azos da Vila
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Galicia
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Ribeira Sacra

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