Community Tasting Note

Winefrog wrote:

Tuesday, January 1, 2002 - More to record several details at this point, since it's been so long (purchased in late 2001, drank in early 2002): "Gran" does not appear on front label, but it is indeed a Gran Rerserva according to the official DO label on back. At first it looked too good to be real, so we figured it had been a hoax... but we found information elsewhere on the web suggesting it may have "spent 35 years in wood, and 5 years in bottle," and if that's the case it was bottled around 1970 and released around 1975 !! That explains the relatively modern bottle, good bottle condition and fill level, as well as the relative lack of sediment (I imagine most of it would have settled out long before it saw the bottle). From my recollection, the wine was not at all faded, nor did the decades in wood leave it out of balance... very nice, in fact. Unable to rate it 3 years later though. Drank with tapas brought in from a local place.

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