2009 R. López de Heredia Rioja Crianza Viña Cubillo
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bemeyer wrote:
Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - Needs a long decant or more bottle age. Great flavors but needs to mellow and come together. Drink next bottle after 2020
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Comment posted by Caruso:
8/2/2019 1:06:00 PM - Hello Bemeyer, please do not decant this wine, because it simply don't make sense. There is no sediment in the bottle (cleared twice a year with eggwhite and racked). The wine is fully mature in an oxidative style. You won't decant sherry, do you? This wine will not improve with further aging. In some years it is going to begin to loose its fruit and the oxidative notes become dominating. Even the for some palates high acidity is a part of the wine that is not going to mellow or what ever. The wine is perfect now for what it is. A top-class traditionell rioja every day food wine, which might be consumed on its own as well and you like it as it is or not.