Community Tasting Notes 33

• Fat1Wombat wrote: 99 points

  November 23, 2023 - Thanksgiving 2023.
  What an amazing wine.
  Pours like treacle. Toffee brown with a hint of green.
  The nose is extremely intense with roasted nuts, dried fig and dates.
  Palate is sweet but not cloying due to the concentrated acid.
  Not sure you could ask for much more.

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• zachb1125 Likes this wine: 100 points

  January 24, 2023 - Transcendent. Perhaps the single greatest thing I have ever tasted. Scores and tasting notes simply can't do it justice. It is hard to imagine ever finding anything that I would consider better, maybe just equally good and different at best.
  
  Nose- Can smell it from quite a distance, really packs a punch. Bananas foster, burnt caramel, vintage and modern fernet (menthol, cola, earth, oxidation), ethanol, vanilla, cacao, dark dark brownies, play dough?, unbaked cookie dough
  
  Palate- burnt sugar, lemon, raisin obviously, rich chocolate cake, eventual (2+minutes into finish) leather and mushroom. Lemon curd comes out with the eclairs. Too many flavors to list, really. Spectacular color, mouthfeel, and acidity.

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• FEDEVIDAL wrote: 99 points

  May 25, 2022 - He vuelto a abrir una botella de este vino y repito lo que dije cuando lo probé por primera vez:
  
  Tras beber este vino no queda otra opción que modificar los criterios sobre el vino de moscatel. Este es algo distinto y diferente a todos los moscateles que hasta ahora había conocido. Nada de amarillo más o menos fuerte, aquí está el negro absoluto sin matices ni tonalidades. Borde pequeño y transparente. Gota gorda y lenta. Copa tintada de oro viejo. Denso y muy viscoso.
  
  El aroma es puro infarto, potentísimo, especial, heterogéneo y policromatico. Miles de elementos, café muy notable, licor muy fino, guindas, hierbas frescas, especies, chocolate, humo de puro y tanto más
  
  Boca espesa, cuerpo altísimo, potentísimo, no es liquido tiene tal densidad que se masca, enorme volumen, poco basta para saciar e inundar la boca. Sabores realmente excepcionales , reproduce los olfativos que derivan hacía cítricos como naranjos , pomelos y mandarinos que en boca se hacen muy presentes. Dulce sin exageraciones. Y encima equilibradísimo, si equilibradísimo. Muchísima acidez. Para colmo largo, largísimo inacabable, Fine en sinfonía de amargos, cafés, y mandarinas. Indescriptible, maravilloso y enorme.

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• MAXIMUM SATISFACTION wrote: 98 points

  March 19, 2022 - WTF this is ridiculously good. Murky brown/green coloration with a beyond intense profile. Liquified brown sugar. Stained my Zalto brown. Drink at cellar temp. Sweet but with a crispness of a Greek olive oil. Singular stuff.

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• acyso wrote: 98 points

  March 12, 2022 - Spanish wine (Chicago, IL): From half-bottle. Readily outclasses the VORS bunch, even though this doesn't have that legal designation. An incredibly complex and rich nose with a prominent dose of wood (somehow) and plenty of the archetypal dried fruit aromas. Sweet and intense, with a slight Christmas cake note as well. On the palate, this is incredibly thick and sweet, with a lift from the intense acidity and counterbalanced by both the alcohol and some phenolic bitterness. Probably one of the most complex wines I've ever tasted, this is truly a glorious wine and the stuff of legends.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage N.V.
• Type White - Fortified
• Producer Valdespino
• Varietal Moscatel
• Designation Toneles
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Andalucía
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Jerez-Xérès-Sherry
• UPC Codes 8412449103624, 8412449105215

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• Pending Delivery 12 (4%)
• In Cellars 233 (70%)
• Consumed 86 (26%)

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