Community Tasting Notes 18

• thomas.fahlberg@telia.com wrote:

  February 24, 2023 - 3 hour decanting. Passed peak, but still good

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• StefanAkiko Likes this wine: 97 points

  December 15, 2022 - This is a magnificently and superbly elegant Rioja with only reasons to love it! Truly amazing!
  
  Our btl today, needed a three hour decant to loose its tiolet-stinky sulphur and open up. Stood itself well over the three hour dinner, following the 3h decant and ensuing 3h under cork,before restaurant release!
  
  Beautiful mature robe in a more transparent way than Bdx.
  Nez is rich with earthy, floral, ground-based aromatics plus a good dollop of sumi ink and red berries. Pre-dbldecant, there were some complaints of toiletlike sulphuric terribleness, but it got itself resolved within 2 hrs after decanting.
  In the mouth, this is a mid-weight champion that simply transcends reality. Beautiful 1000-needle tannins, M+ acidity, transparency and intensity. This is firm and mature at the same time. Still many things to resolve before it reaches zenith. Truly amazing!
  
  For every dish, it adapted to be the perfect enhancer, fat-breaker or companion. And it did it amazingly well!

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• wilhelmarnor Likes this wine: 94 points

  October 9, 2020 - Fantastic young color and appearance considered beeing a rioja and the age. Strong, complex, intense nose with dark chocolate and Blackberries.
  Very fresh and vigorous at first. Getting a bit more tired in the glas after a while. Full bodied in the mouth, mature, lots of ripe tannins. Very good. More like a bdx than a rioja.

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• hargy Likes this wine: 90 points

  May 30, 2019 - not sure where the "drink" dates came from but this is certainly still alive even if much of the fruit is gone - some complexity and length - lovely!

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• Collector1855 wrote: 95 points

  August 18, 2017 - Served blind. The nose is ripe and Southern with red fruit, candied fruit, scorched earth but remains clean with no oxidative tones at all. I was guessing South Australia. The palate was very different though than a Barossa Shiraz. More like a modern made Bordeaux from the Merlot side or a super Tuscan. Full bodied but with good freshness and buffering dry extract at the finish. Turns out to be a Rioja. Could never have guessed this since I almost never drink Rioja. Very well made, great wine. I hear 1994 is a stellar Rioja vintage, this bottle certainly supports this.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1994
• Type Red
• Producer Marqués de Riscal
• Varietal Tempranillo
• Designation Baron de Chirel Reserva
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region La Rioja
• SubRegion La Rioja Alavesa
• Appellation Rioja

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• In Cellars 145 (62%)
• Consumed 88 (37%)

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