February 24, 2024 - A little thin and light for what I was expecting. At first, wood and dried plum. Then ripe cherry, almond, dirt. Strong cranberry juice at the finish. Overall just not very complex and the oak notes seem to be lost.
February 16, 2024 - A business lunch (Restaurant Vineum, Rotterdam, NL): A blend of 60% Garnacha, 30% Tempranillo and 10% Viura, 48 months in neutral American oak and 48 months in bottle. Orange colour with tawny reflections; clear and fresh style, needs time in the glass to open up, balsamic, candied fruit and spices, dried orange, hints of cold tea and sweet oak on the finish.
January 14, 2024 - No tasting note written.
December 16, 2023 - Wonderful!
December 1, 2023 - Mini ESTG at Asadero Kent (Kent, WA): Salty, oxidative, amazing acidity. This is such a unique and special wine.
November 1, 2023 - On the nose subtle strawberry. Medium bodied, dry, crisp, smooth and elegant, delivering dried strawberry and cranberry, a slightly oxidative/sherry aspect and a light creamy mouthfeel on the finish. Wow, a darn delicious rosé!
October 21, 2023 - Strawberry red in color with hints of orange. Oxidative almost sherry like. Hints of oak and vanilla, dried strawberry and dried fruit. Excellent with paella, overall a good food wine.
October 15, 2023 - Deep orange.
Pronounced aromas of dried orange, marmalade, shoe polish, apricot, tangerine peel, marzipan, dried herbs.
Pronounced palate.
Medium body, high acidity, medium (-) tannin, long finish.
September 15, 2023 - Dried strawberry, mushroom, and utterly beautiful wood spice introduce the 2011 on the nose. Great intensity. Great purity on the palette, like clear spring water. Strawberry and raspberry, flowers, and tingly spice excite the palette. The tingling acidity goes on for ages. A professional review mentioned watermelon and that is there on the mid palette.
September 3, 2023 - Opened three hours in advance. Such a unique colour that’s difficult to decern as is often the case with these wines where it sits somewhere between deep cranberry and light rust. Oxidative in style with a burst of fino - it almost comes across as a dry Pedro Ximénez - where there’s the aromatic intensity minus the sweetness. If we turn our attention to fruit for a moment you’ll find both dried cranberry and strawberry and a touch of blood orange. Beyond the fruit you’ll discover wood spice, dried cinnamon sticks, and marzipan. There’s a deep, crushing intensity throughout where the wine is simultaneously both rich and austere. As I sit here writing these notes they increasingly seem redundant since it’s impossible to accurately represent or do justice the shree brilliance and majesty of these wines. Exceptional. Absolutely exceptional.