Community Tasting Note

Riccardo Malocchio wrote:

Monday, May 19, 2014 - I evidently like this wine more than the crowd which is a little surprising to me as I generally prefer a more elegant, lightly fruited, gentle, older Rioja - Tondonia GR, Prado Enea, etc. This one, rather, is on the richer, riper, more sweetly fruited end of the spectrum, and still showing quite a youthful profile. The oak is a strong element, as with all Rioja, but here the strong vanillin of French oak seems to predominate over the cedar and dill of American oak. Though not my preferred Rioja profile on paper, I found this to be an excellent wine in the glass and it went beautifully with a big plate of oxtail stuffed piquillo peppers.

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