Community Tasting Notes 18

• Gemofwine wrote: 85 points

  August 21, 2018 - Spicy, savoury & Meaty aroma, along with spicy ending. Lack structure.
  Warm woody, vanilla notes when the wine opened up..... needs an hour of decanting... caramel too

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• looiwt wrote: 89 points

  June 4, 2012 - Rather faint on the nose, with earthy and cherry flavours. On the palate this is full; savoury with black cherries, barnyard and spicy notes. Slightly tart, fruity flavours without being sweet and round, which is probably why it didn't win much fans across the table. Don't think the fruit will hold much longer, so this is certainly ready to drink. Long, dry finish. A solid, proper wine!

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• Paul S wrote: 91 points

  April 4, 2012 - Dinner at Giant Garoupa (Yuan Wei Deep-Sea Garoupa, Serangoon Road): Good. I did not like this wine very much the last time round, so this was a very pleasant surprise. It had a really nice nose of damp earth and smoke wed to dark cherry and cassis aromas. On the more modern side of Tempranillo maybe, but this is a Ribera after all. The palate was still marked with very high acidity, but this now came across as freshnes rather than the slightly tart feel that the wine had a few years back. In fact, the acidity helped to give the wine a very focused, defined feel, realy clean in spite of the litle layer of fine tannins that was drawn across its mid-weighted flavours of black cherries and cassis. Simple, but a real pleasure to drink. The finish floated away very nicely too, with a final kiss of cigarette smoke. Good stuff - this made me wonder whether the last bottle some four years back was flawed, or if it was going through an awkward stage.

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• Mingmong wrote: 93 points

  April 4, 2012 - Lovely nose dark cherry, soft elegant, actually thought it is a left bank bord, soft tannins and low acid. It is very good.

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• Sleepy Dave wrote:

  June 19, 2010 - Nose is quite expressive with its floral tones along with chalky red berry with little bit of secondary aromas. Palate is slight tannic but able to cover by its ripe fruits profile to a slight rubbery finish. Skip.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1999
• Type Red
• Producer Finca Villacreces
• Varietal Tempranillo Blend
• Designation Crianza
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Castilla y León
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Ribera del Duero

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• In Cellars 28 (29%)
• Consumed 69 (71%)

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