Community Tasting Notes 5

• Pharrison76 wrote:

  August 13, 2015 - Probably a Last Bottle wine. not great, but improved after a couple of days.

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• DQuinn wrote: 72 points

  July 11, 2013 - Horrible, un-drinkable. Take a bunch of prunes, stew them for 12 hours and mix with water and some kerosene; 'bout sums this one up.

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• ChipGreen wrote: 79 points

  April 29, 2013 - Interesting 90/10 Monastrell/CS blend but definitely past its prime. Muddy purple color with ruby-tinged edges. Thin, widely spaced legs. Dark, over-ripe fruits on the nose. Stewed plums, black cherry on the palate with some spice, bitterness, a little loamy earth and fairly prominent tannins. It did improve as it opened up over the course of a few hours but wasn't significantly better.

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• Basil Ganglia wrote:

  April 17, 2013 - PnP. Modest legs. Purplish brick color. Opaque. Light nose. No earthiness or funk; a bit of spice. Floral and light fruit – can’t place it exactly. Maybe blueberry, cranberry or raspberry. A bit of bite. Some tannin. A bitter phenolic aftertaste.
  
  Ten minutes after opening some earthiness coming out in nose. Tannins in more force. CS provides a deeper note. Darker notes starting to come out – noticeable elements of blackberries and black plum. Now just a touch of heat. Phenolics not as strong, but still noticeable. Still a bit rough in the mouth; the tannins and fruit seem to me to be competing instead of blending. There seems to be a hollow spot in the profile – the wine is dominated by some lighter notes, and the CS is distinct. But there’s a gap in between those components.
  
  After an hour just a bit more development of the earthiness and dark. But no changes in the overall structure noted above.
  
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  Notes on the second day after unstoppered storage:
  
  Color unchanged. Nose: some kind of darker fruit that I can’t place; cedar/spice, and a bit of funk – tending toward sour instead of earthy. On the palate. Much more open. Notes of cranberry, raspberry immediately. Considerable bite, and some heat. A bit of grippy tannin and still a bit of bitterness. A distinct mercaptan note as well. I seem to be sensitive to mercaptans, and this isn't enough to be objectionable to me, but it's not far off. Overall this is still not well integrated for my tastes. The gap I noted before isn’t as noticeable.
  
  Overall I think this is mediocre; I wouldn’t hesitate in the least to use it for cooking or Sangria. I don’t have enough experience to know if this is past it’s prime, in a dumb phase, or just simply was never very good to begin with. I’ve got one more bottle and I have little to lose by larding it away for a few more years to see what happens.
  
  I got this for about $7.50/bottle at a Last Bottle marathon. I've generally had good results buying 5-10 year old Spanish reds at flash sites, so given the price I took a chance. This one was a dud.

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• Richhanna wrote: 83 points

  April 10, 2013 - Raisins and plums and a bit of stewed fruit on the palate, with a similar nose, including a bit of cinnamon. This is well past its prime, but not an unpleasant drink given the raisiny character that it has developed.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• Type Red
• Producer Finca Omblancas
• Varietal Monastrell
• Designation Denuño
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Murcia
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Jumilla

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• In Cellars 5 (24%)
• Consumed 16 (76%)

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