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• VDLT Wine Likes this wine:

  June 19, 2022 - It’s all there but quite closed. Be patient!

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• JJYoyo wrote: 91 points

  November 7, 2021 - Decanted with a taste after 6 hrs and then a day later. Difficult to rate this one fwiw because it is so screamingly young but also because it’s just on the edge of greatness. Loads of dark berries - blackberry, cherry - and rich fruit (pomegranate, plum). Tannins right now are pretty fierce, making it difficult to assess how this will develop. Even after a day in the decanter it had only started to budge. It needs many years in the cellar to really come together.
  Score: 90. Relative to expectations: + for now , maybe more later.

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• VDLT Wine Likes this wine:

  August 15, 2020 - Small & intimate Covid-era dinner (Chez moi): Triple decanted at least 6 hours prior. Much too young but I needed to check in with this. From a Grassl Cru, the infant fruit has great energy, juiciness as well as remarkable purity. The tannins insist on saying, “none shall pass!” But the complexity that seemingly can come only from very old vines and original rootstock is palpable nonetheless. Such a dichotomy that a wine that is fiercely structured at present can still vividly display such delicacy.

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• VDLT Wine Likes this wine:

  December 7, 2019 - Barrel sample in Arizcuren cellar: A remarkably elegant and pure expression of Garnacha. It has real gravitas. Should be a stunning wine.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2018
• Type Red
• Producer Arizcuren
• Varietal Garnacha
• Designation Barranco del Prado
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region La Rioja
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Rioja

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• In Cellars 47 (82%)
• Consumed 10 (18%)

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