Slightly cloudy medium faded ruby with good color; haunting lovely nose of pot-pouri, perfume, licorice, orange peel, cardamon, macerated cherry skin, sous-bois, etc. Very complex and intriguing. On the palate very silky and elegant, med body, rsolved but slightly present tannins, slightly elevated acidity, hint of musk, long finish. Fantastic wine, in a great place now. Amazing with Jamon. Don't wait. Otono w/J,A, and W
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Pre-Paulee Warm-up Dinner (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): Alongside the '76 Tondonia Gran Reserva. Fully mature red cherry with lots of earth, yet sparkly clean and so spiced. More layers kept emerging with more air. Really great, just not as great as the Tondonia, this wine was probably better a few years ago.
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Pre La Paulée Dinner with friends (Home): Side by side with the Tondonia. This wine was so great and texturally enthralling, but the Tondonia was better in almost every way.
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Lovely burnished brown, orange, faded pale ruby, similar to an old Burg/Barolo color; Very fragrant, stewed cranberry, old strawberry, faint impression of sweetness yet still savory, no perceptible oak at this stage although maybe a slight sandalwood note with exotic and earthy spices with light earthy/musty cellar note. Delicate and silky smooth on the palate, tannins mostly resolved although there's just enough lingering fine powdery tannins to give it structure. Seamless finish with pot-pouri and a slight tang. Really lovely, super good with the beef stew with a lighter base. X-mas eve dinner. This is in amazing shape and although showing all the signs of an aged wine with the earth tones and slight walnuts, the complexity, finesse, staying power, and balance is remarkable. Had about 8 oz. leftover and gassed and corked it. Shared the last glass with 3 others and amazingly if held almost perfectly with no substantial change. Utterly fantastic and probably better with the prime rib.
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The 1976 Tondonia Gran Reserva Rioja is at its peak, drinking gracefully. Saturated cherry, sweet earthy liquorice, dried cherry tomato and leather. Smooth and savoury with hints of heat from the hottest year of the decade. Dried herb and hints of barnyard on the finish. Balanced and lingering. (85/100)
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Lovely bright and clear, still ruby with just some bricking at the, pale, rim. Clean, dark fruited, nose. Tar, florals, cinnamon, coffee. More than a touch drying with raised acidity on the finish. Some nice elements but not much fun overall. 3rd of 3. All similar. I erred on the side of flawed for the first two. I could have down the same here. This is perhaps, just, the best of the 3.
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Color teja de capa media. Nariz atractiva, con un fino bosquet, cueros, algo de champiñón, especias (pimienta negra, algo de clavo), fruta licorosa.... En boca tiene buen ataque, pasa fluido, con un tanino prácticamente imperceptible, fresco, ligero, elegante, persistente y con profundidad.
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Rubber nose; youthful; sweet raisen-cherry; clay and gravel; texture and body; saturated with coarse light cherry and raisen-raspberry; chocolate notes; long, long ongoing finish.
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Great bottle (even though the cork was kind of soggy and broke). Mature aromas of cherry/pipe tobacco/tea/earth. Light fruit on the palate. In a perfect spot.
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Birthday Tasting (Cyclone Liqours Cellar 626 Ames, Iowa): PNP. Drank.over two hours. Very tart and almost sour at first. Really started showing well after 45 minutes. Funky barnyard nose. Rich roasted fruit, orange peel, figs, dried herbs. I was pleasantly surprised how well this held up. Was still drinking great at two hours. So much fun to drink!
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Another stunning lopez. elegant profile. Lighter in color than CVNE, but no less profound. So much fun to try all of these next to each other. I can drink old Lopez till the day I die.
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Tremendous showing. Light in color, pretty red fruit, flowers and mushrooms oozing from the glass. Smells like a beautiful, mature Burgundy. Moves with lightness on the palate, the fruit remaining on top with notes of underbrush underneath. A privilege to taste this.
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delicate cherry aromas with an herbal/earthy tinge. Still has power and intensity on the palate. Balanced acidity and resolved tannins. No rush to drink these up, but this bottle was in a good place.
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Maybe overly oxidised. Slight seepage on the bottle, low level. Strong acidity but prune baked stewed fruit. Some elegance. I hope that my other few bottles are a bit better than this...
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Lopez de Heredia Tasting - 4 decades (Sunfish Cellars, St. Paul, MN): Light-medium red color. PNP, drank 1 oz over 10 minutes. There were two bottles of this. One was maderized, the other was on the downswing, but ok. Tart, tart cherry, earth, Dr. Pepper, a little metallic on the finish. 87-88pts.
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Color: light red Nose: stunning, earthiness, lovely, leather, a very comforting old style nose, a 5 star nose Palate: very distinct taste of tangy red fruits, would say drink up but not over the hill, very acidic, fruits are almost gone, the nose is much better then the palate, I don't think this was a bottle firing on all cylinders, after the nose the palate is a bit of a let down
Rating: 90
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From a perfect looking bottle imported by the RWC, this wine had a deep red center with tan rims. The medium intensity nose of dark cherries, red dust, cassis, and roses was attractive.
In the mouth, this wine was light to medium bodied with great acidity and firm tannins (relative to the fruit). While it was nicely balanced for the first hour or two, it started to dry out with air. It had lovely complexity in a long but lean style.
This wine would certainly be best with food. This is one of the few wines I would tend to be careful not to give it too much air (based on this bottle).
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Great juice. Blind I would have said a great producer, well aged, Gevrey Chambertin or Vosne Romanee. Very Burgundian. Well worth buying. I'm going to buy a bunch of the 91 and 94 and see if it becomes like this in 10-20 years...
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An incredible bottle of wine. Gorgeous translucent red hue (no browning at all), enticing earthy bouquet with impeccable balance and a monster finish. A wine with soul. This is truly a wine drinking experience.
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Chicago Berserkerfest Dinner (Blue Star Bistro - Chicago IL): Popped and poured, served blind. Lots of mushroom aromas with dried tart cherry. Similar on palate with a bit of fig as well. Very fine tannins, very charming structure. Wonderful once again.
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Nice and typical nose. Very old leather, nutty oak. Lacking on the palate and flat but it totally transformed into another wine on day 3 with more energy, complexity and depth. Much more balance on the palate with finally some fruit (dark raspberry). Cocoa. While it could be a little more multi-dimensional, it's very enjoyable. Dry tannins on the finish.
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EWG @ Ración: Wow. I could not get enough of this. All I can say is this is a beautiful wine that is right in my wheelhouse. One thing that sets it apart is that I could never get tired of it. Each sniff makes me want more. Each drink makes me want more. A pretty red fruited wine. Still so fresh. Seems to be drinking at its peak.
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Racion: Faded very pale red; light earth tones with ever so slight subtle red berries and clean rocky minerals; super elegant, good tart berry acidity with faint tannins but not lacking for it, silky, unpretentious yet clearly something special; complex, very nice balance--everything a great aged red should be. Beautiful with beef cheek toast and the squid ink pasta. This grew on me and kept begging me to drink more. I could not deny her.
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Awesome! Crimson with noticeable bricking. Explosive, complex, grippy. Clerries, leather, spice...really too much going on to describe. Just a fabulous wine drinking at its peak plateau.
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Krug Dinner (Yusho - Chicago IL): Very glad this was decanted. Much like another bottle from last summer, this was both incredibly powerful and harmonious.
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Just great wine. Time after time, I find wines from this estate to be among my favorites. This was a relatively big example, amazingly fresh and vibrant; not showing its age at all. An incredible food wine that allows you to focus on both the food and the wine at the same time and improves both (of course the cavatelli with white truffles at Troquet didn't hurt). If there's none of this in your cellar, you need to fix that.
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Drank at Stone Barns at Blue Hills commemorating my 35th birthday. From open, it was perfect. 35 years...and aged better than I have! Richer than a classic Burgundy, with earthy spice, this rioja exhibited impressive structure--bright, ripe red fruits, blood orange...and black pepper, cherry smoke and leather. I hope have as much life left as this wine...wonderful!
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Started with great dried fruit on nose - cranberry, cherries. Palate started rather tart with slightly awkward acidity. Within 15 minutes dried fruit starting coming out on the palate as well, then in 30-40 minutes we started picking up dried herb on both the nose and palate. Tannins were harmoniously integrated. By this time the finish was long and layered. Bottle was popped, decanted and poured. It was by far at its best at the end, around 90-120 minutes after opened. Who knows, this might have even been better at three hours!
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Ancient Rioja (1956 to 1976) (Contigo, San Francisco): Light and tawny. High pitched creosote. Rather raw and meaty at first with a combination of fragrance and a leathery/sweaty aroma. Full bodied with licorice and black fruit, fairly dense feel. Minty finish, not quite as complex as the Riojanas. This transiently improves and lengthens, but it quickly attenuates and the wood dries and becomes much more intrusive.
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Old School Rioja on Cinco de Mayo. (Il Corso): When this bottle is on, it can be stunning. In typical maddening LdH style, this bottle is not on. I've had more off bottles than good bottles of the '76. I think that goes for the '73, too, now that I think of it. Rather devoid of fruit, but full of matchsticks and VA. Earth and leather are in the forefront and the acidity is a little harsh. Not corked, just bottle variation. B/B-.
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Dinner with Charles (Washington, D.C.): Poured as a mystery wine, this was almost as deep as the 1995 La Tache. Lots of brett that waxed and waned over time but allowed floral elements and cooked black cherry to also poke through. Some green notes (oak?) and a soupcon of VA as well. For all of its color, relatively light bodied and high acidity. I kept looking for the laciness of vintages such as 1981 but never found it. I think this bottle shows the heat of the vintage. I have never had a bottle of Lopez de Heredia with so much funk, and frankly, it is disjointed for a 35 year old red. Not bad but not recommended either.
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Pretty good, not 'wow'. Cork soaked through so I don't know about the topping off and recorking claim. a little too acidic for me, too 'pitchy' to quote Randy Jackson. Hoping for more from bottle #2.
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A good bottle of this wine which can be quite variable in the US. Really fine clear ruby color with some fading on the edges. What a gorgeous nose of sweet cherry cream and charred oak in the best possible way. Lighter-bodied with an ethereal texture not unlike a great old Burgundy. Lovely ripe and juicy dark cherry fruit with a wonderful spicy complexity on the finish. This wine is totally mature and although Lopez de Heredia's wines seem to age effortlessly, I think this should be drunk soon. My feeling is age the Tondonia (which is more Bordauex-like) and drink the Bosconia (Spanish Burgundy). These wines are pure, authentic and perform so well with food at the table. This ain't California Cabernet!
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L de H is the wine I reach for instead of having a lot of expensive, inconsistent burgundies in my cellar. The wine is wonderful. It is 34 years old now, and you can still buy it at a relatively reasonable price. It is bright, with good fruit and clearly still has many years left in it. It is light to medium bodied, with a good full mouthfeel. The tobacco, earth and leather flavors, beautifully mixed up with dark red cherry. The low alcohol (12.5%) means there is no heat, and therefore in this old wine it is not breaking though and destroying the wine. I'll get more of this depending on my bonus next year!
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Loads of volatile acidity. Judging by others' notes, an off bottle. Stewed rhubarb dominates on the palate. Adequate weight and mouthfeel. Clearly a serious wine but not a patch on the 1968 drunk recently. The exquisite SJN, birth year 1976, was quite pleased. Promised her the 1976 Tondonia at a later time.
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First day, the nose is all about soil, clay, cooked peas with a palate that showed sour berry fruit and nearly overwhelming acidity. However, on day two, this opened up beautifully with a nose showing herbal tea with honey, olives and red berries. The palate was velvety smooth with plum fruit, tobacco, leather and a long sour wild berry finish. Amazing bottle of wine that would be wasted on the impatient.
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SOm'd overnight.First night thin and acid dominated.... overnight it transformed... Jeweled amber ruby in color. Earth leather, deep cherries and strawberries. Floral and herbal. A really lung-filling nose. This has a lot going on. Lovely midpalate texture and flow. Deep yet not heavy, very fresh with a great balance of fruit, savory, and secondary notes. This really fills out on the palate and keeps changing over time. Heme, tobacco and fine tannins on the back end. This is great wine that would have been unimpressive if drunk the first night. 96 pts
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Spanish wines at Gotham Bar & Grill (Gotham Bar & Grill, NYC): Smooth, pretty. Drinking beautifully. A bit of a sweet note. Floral and complex with a light, bright profile and a bit of dark notes. Long finish. Very nice. Although I came into the tasting expecting to prefer the Bosconias I found that I preferred the Tondonia flight. Not sure if the vintages we had or the food pairing influenced that. The Bosconias were prettier, but the Tondonias added a bit more muscle and heft that I really liked. They were all gorgeous and wonderful wines. A-/B+
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Popped and poured, then drank over the following 5 hours. Pretty nose of sour cherry, smoke, and earth. In the mouth, linear and precise - the acidity provides great structure. Not as good as previous bottles, but still a very nice wine.
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NSMFOW November 2009--Mini Verticals (The Grapevine, Salem, MA): Ruby color with bricking. Nose of red fruits, cedar, minerals, leather. Palate of red cherry, raspberry, cedar, mushroom, minerals with a soft tannin structure to provide nice balance. A wonderful, complex, even youthful wine that was a joy to drink.
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Beautiful nose of cigar box, aged wood, bit of spice, has something that reminds me of high class Bordeaux. Tiny hint of band aid. Color is slightly dark ruby. Palate is smooth, understated but full on the palate . 85% tempranillo 5 garnacha, 5 mazuelo (carignan) for weight and body, graciano for acid. Slightly porty oxidatve caramel notes come out on the nose with air. 92-93.
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My first experience with Bosconia I think and I see why people describe this as the 'burgundian' of the L de H wines. Lighter-bodied with more obvious acidity and tart red fruit with tobacco, mushroom and truffle. This is nice but doesn't stand much of a chance served alongside the Vina Real. More of a wine to consider over a few glasses and the course of an evening. Very good indeed but not top flight. ***1/2
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Would have guessed burgundy blind. Beautiful nose of candied / sour cherry with some earth and t and a. Gorgeous. Over time some tar emerges, but it is not a tar that could be mistaken for piemonte. In the mouth a long finish filled with tannins and bracing acidity (a little more scidic than the last time i had it, but not in a bad way at all). Great wine.
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G6 (Alex): Bright ruby color. Fresh plumbs on the nose. Tastes of blackberry, cherry, spice and earth. Rich mid palate with a complex finish. A much better showing this time around.
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I tried hard to like this wine, but was not really successful. I have not had much luck with older Spanish wines save for one nice old bottle in Segovia (La Rioja Alta, I believe). This bottle's, fill and cork were in excellent condition. Cork removed in one piece and soaked up to near the top. Vigorous wine with brilliant garnet color. Initially reticent nose that developed slowly and never became truly noteworthy. This wine has the weight and body of traditional Burgundy or old barolo, but none of the complexity or development of those wines. It is intensley sour relentlessly abraiding the sides of the tongue. I vaccumed sealed this and put it in the refrigerator overnight. 24 hours later it was marginally better with a more interesting nose of leather, cherry and pepper, but maintained its assault on the tongue seemingly shrinking mine to about half its normal width. More like oral surgery than wine.
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Silky smooth texture with lovely earth and dark cherry flavors. Drinks like an old Burgundy with a fine spicy complexity on the finish. This baby is peaking now.
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An unbelievable wine. One of the few wines at this price point where i fell i get my moneys worth as opposed to competing for table status. Drinking perfectly. medium body, wonderful secondary fruit along with a hint of primary.
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I think this has been in the bottle for a lot longer (not just 5 years) than the 81, and shows its age much more, the acidity is even more to the fore and it is on the volatile side. Still a lot of the lovely woodsy, herby, notes and a just fabulous nose. I'd take the 81 ahead of this, though, for sure - this is more of an interesting odd wine than something to truly love.
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Faded tawny color, tastes a bit lean and green this wine disappoints and should have been drunk years ago. Stong on petrol and too woodsy for my tastes, this stinky is not delicious.
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Mostly French Dinner in Honor of Ken Birman (Conduit, San Francisco): Light tawny color. Very appealing, complex initial impression with cedar and crystallized fruit. Notably, no overripeness or stewed flavors despite this notoriously hot year. Unfortunately, this quickly turns leaner and greener with intrusive wood. Best right out of the bottle, then a steady, inexorable downhill course. Past peak and a disappointment given its reputation. Preferred the '81 tasted recently.
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Well, this bottle lowers my batting average on this wine; seems the great bottle was the fluke. This still has some hard, grainy, unresolved tannin that undermines Bosconia's usual delicacy.
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Slightly fading ruby color. Gorgeous nose of earthy, cherry perfume. Very ripe and intense with strong acidity. Intense flavors of ripe dark cherries along with Rioja earthiness. A lively, high-toned, intensely ripe wine with a seductive, ethereal texture. It's hard not to love these wines once you get used to them.
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A unique experience. Bottle dirty. neck/top covered in hard sealing was difficult to remove. Cork was black, loose, and with slight pressure from corkscrew slipped into bottle. Black gunk lined inside of the bottle neck, which smelled intensely of damp mold. However what was in the bottle was wonderful. Vibrant and complex, very floral / perfumey remarkable nose, smooth mouthfeel, still with structure/fine tannins, long finish.
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Mucho Lopez (Il Corso): A great bottle of this in comparison to a lighter, more granularly textured example I had a few weeks ago. A classic Old World bouquet of sweet "barnyard" scents more pungent than the rest of the lineup, and everything on the palate you want Bosconia to be, rounded in shape but sticky with sap and gaining detail on the fresh herbal finish.
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Bottle was dirty with clay - cork was in bad shape and rotted at the top, but pulled fine. I just love the color and nose of these old Lopez wines. Had the pleasure of sharing it with friends and some home cooked tapas. Reddish-brown for sure, but with a good bit of color still. I got soft wood, old cherries and some leather in the nose. So soft and wonderful. Prob wont buy more at the price, but what a treat.
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Fairly faded browning color. Wild nose of rotting cherries, petrol, menthol, spicy wood and a hint of shoe polish. What a fabulous, unique wine that couldn't be more opposite of a California Cabernet fruit bomb. In fact, it most reminds me of an old Burgundy but has the really lean, woodsy flavor of an old Rioja with wonderful stinky, decadent cherry fruit. Should still improve with time because of it's spine of firm acidity. Gorgeous intensity and old world flavor on the spicy, saucy, complex finish.
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Very faded color with significant browning. Wonderful nose of spicy cherries, old wood, a hint of shoe polish and sweet cream. Has a fantastic, creamy mouthfeel with vibrant cherry fruit and complex woodsy spices. The wine has a juicy fresh intensity and great lift for a 30-year old wine. Performs much more like an old red Burgundy than anything else but the wonderful woodsy flavors of Rioja stand out. This is superb stuff and a bargain in today's wine world.
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Not as good as my other bottle. This one was barely holding onto life. Brown, faint cherry, acidic, best upon opening (with air it turned increasingly sour).
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Beautiful brilliant translucent garnet with some bricking and clearing at the rim. Immense and captivating nose of sour baking cherries, cedar, vanilla, warm dusty earth, rhubarb and more. Medium to full bodied with a sweet, plush, and pure presence in the mouth. Sweet fruits and vibrant acidity are well balanced to make this simply a pleasure. Finishes with a penetrating quality though with only medium length. Nonetheless awesome. Fully mature, drink up in my opinion.
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Super elegant, fragrant nose of dried flowers, dried fruit and old wood, soft mouth feel with very subtle flavors and finely integrated tannins. This is a wine that deserves to be enjoyed on its own.
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Marvelously aromatic if idiosyncratic wine. There's always the scent of oxidation, but flowery complexity, red fruit and soil infused aromas and flavors. Delicious but in an intellectual not hedonistic way.
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The bottle did not appear to be in good shape, especially since the wax capsule was chipped off, but the cork was in good shape. Very musty odors at first, but it blew off in the glass. Color was a sort of reddish-brown, medium body. Sour black cherries that sweetened as it opened up, oak spice, minerals and a strong backbone of acidity that went well with dinner. I was worried at first, but with air, the fruit livened up, the spice became stronger and it came together. Quite an interesting wine.
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Finally, a semi-drinkable bottle of this. Muted but pretty nose shows some iron and dusty black cherry, as well as some old-bones nail polish notes. Salty and sharp on the palate, lots of sea foam with only traces of fruit. Dominated by unclean acids and musty notes. Lost any of the charm it had within a half-hour.
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Old bones on the nose. Nail polish, some muted sour cherry. Some earthy notes and underlying class here but past it's prime - probably a storage issue. */5
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2/13/2024 - peternelson Likes this wine: 93 Points
Slightly cloudy medium faded ruby with good color; haunting lovely nose of pot-pouri, perfume, licorice, orange peel, cardamon, macerated cherry skin, sous-bois, etc. Very complex and intriguing. On the palate very silky and elegant, med body, rsolved but slightly present tannins, slightly elevated acidity, hint of musk, long finish. Fantastic wine, in a great place now. Amazing with Jamon. Don't wait. Otono w/J,A, and W
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3/1/2023 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Pre-Paulee Warm-up Dinner (House of Nanda - Chicago IL): Alongside the '76 Tondonia Gran Reserva. Fully mature red cherry with lots of earth, yet sparkly clean and so spiced. More layers kept emerging with more air. Really great, just not as great as the Tondonia, this wine was probably better a few years ago.
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3/1/2023 - Nanda wrote: 95 Points
Pre La Paulée Dinner with friends (Home): Side by side with the Tondonia. This wine was so great and texturally enthralling, but the Tondonia was better in almost every way.
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3/25/2022 - Fuel55 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Fully mature - a touch sweet but oddly satisfying. Drink cool and with fruit for max enjoyment. Very Burgundian at this point.
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2/15/2022 - jfw06830 wrote:
Drank
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2/9/2022 - paulst Likes this wine: 92 Points
Austere with tart fruit and supporting acidity; semi-sweet dried prune finish.
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12/31/2021 - sempervinum wrote:
Oxidized.
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7/23/2021 - edwardochu wrote: 87 Points
well past its prime..
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12/24/2020 - peternelson Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lovely burnished brown, orange, faded pale ruby, similar to an old Burg/Barolo color; Very fragrant, stewed cranberry, old strawberry, faint impression of sweetness yet still savory, no perceptible oak at this stage although maybe a slight sandalwood note with exotic and earthy spices with light earthy/musty cellar note. Delicate and silky smooth on the palate, tannins mostly resolved although there's just enough lingering fine powdery tannins to give it structure. Seamless finish with pot-pouri and a slight tang. Really lovely, super good with the beef stew with a lighter base. X-mas eve dinner. This is in amazing shape and although showing all the signs of an aged wine with the earth tones and slight walnuts, the complexity, finesse, staying power, and balance is remarkable.
Had about 8 oz. leftover and gassed and corked it. Shared the last glass with 3 others and amazingly if held almost perfectly with no substantial change. Utterly fantastic and probably better with the prime rib.
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8/29/2020 - Jammy Wine wrote: 85 Points
The 1976 Tondonia Gran Reserva Rioja is at its peak, drinking gracefully. Saturated cherry, sweet earthy liquorice, dried cherry tomato and leather. Smooth and savoury with hints of heat from the hottest year of the decade. Dried herb and hints of barnyard on the finish. Balanced and lingering. (85/100)
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5/6/2020 - paulst Likes this wine: 87 Points
Over the hill; musty with light sweet cherry; sweet soft finish.
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2/26/2020 - Cofxc Does not like this wine: 83 Points
Lovely bright and clear, still ruby with just some bricking at the, pale, rim. Clean, dark fruited, nose. Tar, florals, cinnamon, coffee. More than a touch drying with raised acidity on the finish. Some nice elements but not much fun overall. 3rd of 3. All similar. I erred on the side of flawed for the first two. I could have down the same here. This is perhaps, just, the best of the 3.
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2/16/2020 - paulst Likes this wine: 95 Points
Cedar; light earthy licorice; complex; some cherry and raisen; still evolving; sweet earthy light sweet-sour-cherry finish.
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1/17/2020 - paulst Likes this wine: 93 Points
Light nose; earthy cherry and light mocha; elegant; sweet finish.
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12/2/2019 - paulst Likes this wine: 93 Points
Blackberry; earth; coarse; acidic; tannic; sweet blackberry finish.
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11/21/2019 - paulst Likes this wine: 97 Points
Earth and lead pencil; sweet blackberry-licorice-cherry; layered and complex; still with nice tannic support; outstanding.
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10/27/2019 - PacoHigon Likes this wine:
Color teja de capa media. Nariz atractiva, con un fino bosquet, cueros, algo de champiñón, especias (pimienta negra, algo de clavo), fruta licorosa.... En boca tiene buen ataque, pasa fluido, con un tanino prácticamente imperceptible, fresco, ligero, elegante, persistente y con profundidad.
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2/22/2019 - paulst Likes this wine: 95 Points
Light nose; soft sweet cherry and blackberry; long sweet finish.
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2/11/2019 - paulst Likes this wine: 95 Points
Cedar; sweet cherry-blackberry; long sweet finish; still evolving but balanced and soft.
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1/25/2019 - paulst wrote: 97 Points
Rubber nose; youthful; sweet raisen-cherry; clay and gravel; texture and body; saturated with coarse light cherry and raisen-raspberry; chocolate notes; long, long ongoing finish.
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1/4/2019 - MartyL wrote: 94 Points
Great bottle (even though the cork was kind of soggy and broke). Mature aromas of cherry/pipe tobacco/tea/earth. Light fruit on the palate. In a perfect spot.
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11/8/2018 - RieslingMonAmour wrote:
Aromas terciarios, cuero, alguna opulencia, especias...
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5/10/2018 - Dvogt wrote: 93 Points
Sour cherry, lemon peel, dried herbs and leather. Nice out of the bottle, showed best at 30 minutes and then faded after 45-60 minutes.
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9/18/2017 - hawkeye54 wrote: 95 Points
Birthday Tasting (Cyclone Liqours Cellar 626 Ames, Iowa): PNP. Drank.over two hours. Very tart and almost sour at first. Really started showing well after 45 minutes. Funky barnyard nose. Rich roasted fruit, orange peel, figs, dried herbs. I was pleasantly surprised how well this held up. Was still drinking great at two hours. So much fun to drink!
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11/7/2016 - lolo66 wrote:
Another stunning lopez. elegant profile. Lighter in color than CVNE, but no less profound. So much fun to try all of these next to each other. I can drink old Lopez till the day I die.
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10/8/2016 - Papies wrote:
Decades of 6 (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): Not a flawed wine per se but time hasn't been kind to it. Not in a good shape and pointless to rate
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10/15/2015 - pbaek wrote:
Tremendous showing. Light in color, pretty red fruit, flowers and mushrooms oozing from the glass. Smells like a beautiful, mature Burgundy. Moves with lightness on the palate, the fruit remaining on top with notes of underbrush underneath. A privilege to taste this.
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6/5/2015 - MartyL wrote: 92 Points
delicate cherry aromas with an herbal/earthy tinge. Still has power and intensity on the palate. Balanced acidity and resolved tannins. No rush to drink these up, but this bottle was in a good place.
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2/27/2015 - theonlylittledog wrote: 85 Points
Maybe overly oxidised. Slight seepage on the bottle, low level. Strong acidity but prune baked stewed fruit. Some elegance. I hope that my other few bottles are a bit better than this...
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11/6/2014 - rocknroller wrote: 88 Points
Lopez de Heredia Tasting - 4 decades (Sunfish Cellars, St. Paul, MN): Light-medium red color. PNP, drank 1 oz over 10 minutes. There were two bottles of this. One was maderized, the other was on the downswing, but ok. Tart, tart cherry, earth, Dr. Pepper, a little metallic on the finish. 87-88pts.
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10/6/2014 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine: 90 Points
Color: light red
Nose: stunning, earthiness, lovely, leather, a very comforting old style nose, a 5 star nose
Palate: very distinct taste of tangy red fruits, would say drink up but not over the hill, very acidic, fruits are almost gone, the nose is much better then the palate, I don't think this was a bottle firing on all cylinders, after the nose the palate is a bit of a let down
Rating: 90
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8/8/2014 - Flavito wrote: 95 Points
Classic mature Rioja, very silky and complex. Started with a melange of figs and sous bois and evolved into an ethereal floral bouquet. Fantastic!
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7/19/2014 - Topper wrote: flawed
Dead as doornail
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4/3/2014 - Burgundy Al wrote:
Eight (Not Angry) Men Drinking Great Wine (Paris Club - Chicago IL): Popped and poured. Mature red cherry, figs, dried herbs and floral hints. Long and incredibly elegant. Would have also benefited from a lot more air.
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1/18/2014 - fclarity wrote: 92 Points
From a perfect looking bottle imported by the RWC, this wine had a deep red center with tan rims. The medium intensity nose of dark cherries, red dust, cassis, and roses was attractive.
In the mouth, this wine was light to medium bodied with great acidity and firm tannins (relative to the fruit). While it was nicely balanced for the first hour or two, it started to dry out with air. It had lovely complexity in a long but lean style.
This wine would certainly be best with food. This is one of the few wines I would tend to be careful not to give it too much air (based on this bottle).
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11/13/2013 - PeterH Likes this wine: 95 Points
Great juice. Blind I would have said a great producer, well aged, Gevrey Chambertin or Vosne Romanee. Very Burgundian. Well worth buying. I'm going to buy a bunch of the 91 and 94 and see if it becomes like this in 10-20 years...
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6/4/2013 - cardsandwine Likes this wine:
An incredible bottle of wine. Gorgeous translucent red hue (no browning at all), enticing earthy bouquet with impeccable balance and a monster finish. A wine with soul. This is truly a wine drinking experience.
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5/17/2013 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points
Chicago Berserkerfest Dinner (Blue Star Bistro - Chicago IL): Popped and poured, served blind. Lots of mushroom aromas with dried tart cherry. Similar on palate with a bit of fig as well. Very fine tannins, very charming structure. Wonderful once again.
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5/6/2013 - french16 wrote:
Nice and typical nose. Very old leather, nutty oak. Lacking on the palate and flat but it totally transformed into another wine on day 3 with more energy, complexity and depth. Much more balance on the palate with finally some fruit (dark raspberry). Cocoa.
While it could be a little more multi-dimensional, it's very enjoyable. Dry tannins on the finish.
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1/13/2013 - jasonh Likes this wine: 97 Points
EWG @ Ración: Wow. I could not get enough of this. All I can say is this is a beautiful wine that is right in my wheelhouse. One thing that sets it apart is that I could never get tired of it. Each sniff makes me want more. Each drink makes me want more. A pretty red fruited wine. Still so fresh. Seems to be drinking at its peak.
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1/13/2013 - peternelson wrote: 94 Points
Racion: Faded very pale red; light earth tones with ever so slight subtle red berries and clean rocky minerals; super elegant, good tart berry acidity with faint tannins but not lacking for it, silky, unpretentious yet clearly something special; complex, very nice balance--everything a great aged red should be. Beautiful with beef cheek toast and the squid ink pasta. This grew on me and kept begging me to drink more. I could not deny her.
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1/13/2013 - gregg g wrote:
Awesome! Crimson with noticeable bricking. Explosive, complex, grippy. Clerries, leather, spice...really too much going on to describe. Just a fabulous wine drinking at its peak plateau.
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7/23/2012 - psmith wrote: 93 Points
Medium bodied, elegant styling with pretty, refined dark fruit notes and earthy tones. Classy, mature, and well balanced and resolved. Very nice.
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7/23/2012 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Krug Dinner (Yusho - Chicago IL): Very glad this was decanted. Much like another bottle from last summer, this was both incredibly powerful and harmonious.
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10/14/2011 - Topper wrote: 94 Points
Just great wine. Time after time, I find wines from this estate to be among my favorites. This was a relatively big example, amazingly fresh and vibrant; not showing its age at all. An incredible food wine that allows you to focus on both the food and the wine at the same time and improves both (of course the cavatelli with white truffles at Troquet didn't hurt). If there's none of this in your cellar, you need to fix that.
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9/16/2011 - sarlyb wrote: 100 Points
Drank at Stone Barns at Blue Hills commemorating my 35th birthday. From open, it was perfect. 35 years...and aged better than I have! Richer than a classic Burgundy, with earthy spice, this rioja exhibited impressive structure--bright, ripe red fruits, blood orange...and black pepper, cherry smoke and leather.
I hope have as much life left as this wine...wonderful!
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9/4/2011 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points
Started with great dried fruit on nose - cranberry, cherries. Palate started rather tart with slightly awkward acidity. Within 15 minutes dried fruit starting coming out on the palate as well, then in 30-40 minutes we started picking up dried herb on both the nose and palate. Tannins were harmoniously integrated. By this time the finish was long and layered. Bottle was popped, decanted and poured. It was by far at its best at the end, around 90-120 minutes after opened. Who knows, this might have even been better at three hours!
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6/20/2011 - AndrewSGHall wrote:
Light-bodied and crystalline structure. Bright cherries and just a little brick dust. Really balanced and dead-on.
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6/5/2011 - PeterH wrote: 93 Points
Better than last bottle. Like a well aged, good producer, Vosne Romanee 1er.
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6/1/2011 - drwine2001 wrote:
Ancient Rioja (1956 to 1976) (Contigo, San Francisco): Light and tawny. High pitched creosote. Rather raw and meaty at first with a combination of fragrance and a leathery/sweaty aroma. Full bodied with licorice and black fruit, fairly dense feel. Minty finish, not quite as complex as the Riojanas. This transiently improves and lengthens, but it quickly attenuates and the wood dries and becomes much more intrusive.
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5/23/2011 - Rupert wrote:
Dinner with López de Heredia wines 1934-1976 (Cambio de Tercio, London SW5): Dry and tannic, and a musty tone in the mid-palate - something not right here
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5/5/2011 - BradKNYC wrote:
Old School Rioja on Cinco de Mayo. (Il Corso): When this bottle is on, it can be stunning. In typical maddening LdH style, this bottle is not on. I've had more off bottles than good bottles of the '76. I think that goes for the '73, too, now that I think of it. Rather devoid of fruit, but full of matchsticks and VA. Earth and leather are in the forefront and the acidity is a little harsh. Not corked, just bottle variation. B/B-.
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3/23/2011 - Seth Rosenberg wrote: 92 Points
Nose: sauvage, earth, animal fur, dusty. Great on palate - rich, iron, minerals, blood, plum. Nose - 4/6, Palate - 6/6, Finish - 5/6, Je Ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 16/20.
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1/22/2011 - drwine2001 wrote:
Dinner with Charles (Washington, D.C.): Poured as a mystery wine, this was almost as deep as the 1995 La Tache. Lots of brett that waxed and waned over time but allowed floral elements and cooked black cherry to also poke through. Some green notes (oak?) and a soupcon of VA as well. For all of its color, relatively light bodied and high acidity. I kept looking for the laciness of vintages such as 1981 but never found it. I think this bottle shows the heat of the vintage. I have never had a bottle of Lopez de Heredia with so much funk, and frankly, it is disjointed for a 35 year old red. Not bad but not recommended either.
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12/28/2010 - PeterH wrote: 91 Points
Pretty good, not 'wow'. Cork soaked through so I don't know about the topping off and recorking claim. a little too acidic for me, too 'pitchy' to quote Randy Jackson. Hoping for more from bottle #2.
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11/30/2010 - AtoZ wrote: 95 Points
I think we scored the best bottle of this. Very burgundian. Just lovely. Not over the hill. Wonderful nose. Lighter in style for sure.
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9/9/2010 - dream wrote: 94 Points
A good bottle of this wine which can be quite variable in the US. Really fine clear ruby color with some fading on the edges. What a gorgeous nose of sweet cherry cream and charred oak in the best possible way. Lighter-bodied with an ethereal texture not unlike a great old Burgundy. Lovely ripe and juicy dark cherry fruit with a wonderful spicy complexity on the finish. This wine is totally mature and although Lopez de Heredia's wines seem to age effortlessly, I think this should be drunk soon. My feeling is age the Tondonia (which is more Bordauex-like) and drink the Bosconia (Spanish Burgundy). These wines are pure, authentic and perform so well with food at the table. This ain't California Cabernet!
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9/4/2010 - Winevestor wrote: 96 Points
L de H is the wine I reach for instead of having a lot of expensive, inconsistent burgundies in my cellar. The wine is wonderful. It is 34 years old now, and you can still buy it at a relatively reasonable price. It is bright, with good fruit and clearly still has many years left in it. It is light to medium bodied, with a good full mouthfeel. The tobacco, earth and leather flavors, beautifully mixed up with dark red cherry. The low alcohol (12.5%) means there is no heat, and therefore in this old wine it is not breaking though and destroying the wine. I'll get more of this depending on my bonus next year!
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6/14/2010 - Vinomane wrote: 90 Points
Loads of volatile acidity. Judging by others' notes, an off bottle. Stewed rhubarb dominates on the palate. Adequate weight and mouthfeel. Clearly a serious wine but not a patch on the 1968 drunk recently. The exquisite SJN, birth year 1976, was quite pleased. Promised her the 1976 Tondonia at a later time.
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6/7/2010 - pepeelvis wrote:
beautiful earthy aged rioja
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5/1/2010 - Eric Guido Likes this wine: 94 Points
A Providence, Rhode Island Offline (Blue Grotto, Cigar Master's): I couldn't agree more with the previous note, this bottle was tight and nearly shut down for the first 16 hours after opening, decant and slow-o.
First day, the nose is all about soil, clay, cooked peas with a palate that showed sour berry fruit and nearly overwhelming acidity. However, on day two, this opened up beautifully with a nose showing herbal tea with honey, olives and red berries. The palate was velvety smooth with plum fruit, tobacco, leather and a long sour wild berry finish. Amazing bottle of wine that would be wasted on the impatient.
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4/26/2010 - cct wrote: 96 Points
SOm'd overnight.First night thin and acid dominated.... overnight it transformed...
Jeweled amber ruby in color. Earth leather, deep cherries and strawberries. Floral and herbal. A really lung-filling nose. This has a lot going on. Lovely midpalate texture and flow. Deep yet not heavy, very fresh with a great balance of fruit, savory, and secondary notes. This really fills out on the palate and keeps changing over time. Heme, tobacco and fine tannins on the back end. This is great wine that would have been unimpressive if drunk the first night. 96 pts
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3/8/2010 - MRichman wrote:
Spanish wines at Gotham Bar & Grill (Gotham Bar & Grill, NYC): Smooth, pretty. Drinking beautifully. A bit of a sweet note. Floral and complex with a light, bright profile and a bit of dark notes. Long finish. Very nice. Although I came into the tasting expecting to prefer the Bosconias I found that I preferred the Tondonia flight. Not sure if the vintages we had or the food pairing influenced that. The Bosconias were prettier, but the Tondonias added a bit more muscle and heft that I really liked. They were all gorgeous and wonderful wines.
A-/B+
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1/24/2010 - jlemerond wrote: 91 Points
Popped and poured, then drank over the following 5 hours. Pretty nose of sour cherry, smoke, and earth. In the mouth, linear and precise - the acidity provides great structure. Not as good as previous bottles, but still a very nice wine.
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12/14/2009 - carlwhat wrote:
while still quite good, the 1976 tondonia gran reserva far outclassed it on this evening...
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11/10/2009 - cgrimes wrote: 95 Points
NSMFOW November 2009--Mini Verticals (The Grapevine, Salem, MA): Ruby color with bricking. Nose of red fruits, cedar, minerals, leather. Palate of red cherry, raspberry, cedar, mushroom, minerals with a soft tannin structure to provide nice balance. A wonderful, complex, even youthful wine that was a joy to drink.
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10/17/2009 - amateurwino wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful nose of cigar box, aged wood, bit of spice, has something that reminds me of high class Bordeaux. Tiny hint of band aid. Color is slightly dark ruby. Palate is smooth, understated but full on the palate . 85% tempranillo 5 garnacha, 5 mazuelo (carignan) for weight and body, graciano for acid. Slightly porty oxidatve caramel notes come out on the nose with air. 92-93.
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9/30/2009 - SimonG wrote:
My first experience with Bosconia I think and I see why people describe this as the 'burgundian' of the L de H wines. Lighter-bodied with more obvious acidity and tart red fruit with tobacco, mushroom and truffle. This is nice but doesn't stand much of a chance served alongside the Vina Real. More of a wine to consider over a few glasses and the course of an evening. Very good indeed but not top flight. ***1/2
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9/20/2009 - SageCellarage wrote:
at dinner with Becky Wasserman. It's got all the complexity for the money.
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7/30/2009 - jlemerond wrote:
Would have guessed burgundy blind. Beautiful nose of candied / sour cherry with some earth and t and a. Gorgeous. Over time some tar emerges, but it is not a tar that could be mistaken for piemonte. In the mouth a long finish filled with tannins and bracing acidity (a little more scidic than the last time i had it, but not in a bad way at all). Great wine.
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3/30/2009 - jeff nowak wrote: 92 Points
i'm smitten by this producer, and the rounded balance of fruit/tannin/acid. not quite as boldly expansive as the older cousin tasted alongside.
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3/30/2009 - kstoddard wrote: 91 Points
G6 (Alex): Bright ruby color. Fresh plumbs on the nose. Tastes of blackberry, cherry, spice and earth. Rich mid palate with a complex finish. A much better showing this time around.
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3/24/2009 - MHildbold wrote: 90 Points
Garnet ruby color. Earth, leather. Not as complex by far as the '68.
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1/26/2009 - vindictive wrote:
I tried hard to like this wine, but was not really successful. I have not had much luck with older Spanish wines save for one nice old bottle in Segovia (La Rioja Alta, I believe). This bottle's, fill and cork were in excellent condition. Cork removed in one piece and soaked up to near the top. Vigorous wine with brilliant garnet color. Initially reticent nose that developed slowly and never became truly noteworthy. This wine has the weight and body of traditional Burgundy or old barolo, but none of the complexity or development of those wines. It is intensley sour relentlessly abraiding the sides of the tongue. I vaccumed sealed this and put it in the refrigerator overnight. 24 hours later it was marginally better with a more interesting nose of leather, cherry and pepper, but maintained its assault on the tongue seemingly shrinking mine to about half its normal width. More like oral surgery than wine.
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12/29/2008 - plhew wrote: 85 Points
Way past prime.
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12/24/2008 - jono9999 wrote: 92 Points
Tuffle, bell pepper, fruit on nose.
Tannins all gone. Soft, lean, sour-cherry up front, finish is 30 seconds of cherry, then just the sour remains for 1-2 minutes.
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12/23/2008 - pepeelvis wrote:
delicious perfect
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10/19/2008 - dream wrote: 93 Points
Silky smooth texture with lovely earth and dark cherry flavors. Drinks like an old Burgundy with a fine spicy complexity on the finish. This baby is peaking now.
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8/15/2008 - pepeelvis wrote:
An unbelievable wine. One of the few wines at this price point where i fell i get my moneys worth as opposed to competing for table status. Drinking perfectly. medium body, wonderful secondary fruit along with a hint of primary.
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7/4/2008 - westport wine guy wrote: 92 Points
Still in its prime. Full bodied, delicious.
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6/21/2008 - abh wrote:
I think this has been in the bottle for a lot longer (not just 5 years) than the 81, and shows its age much more, the acidity is even more to the fore and it is on the volatile side. Still a lot of the lovely woodsy, herby, notes and a just fabulous nose. I'd take the 81 ahead of this, though, for sure - this is more of an interesting odd wine than something to truly love.
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4/25/2008 - gsquireh wrote: 81 Points
Faded tawny color, tastes a bit lean and green this wine disappoints and should have been drunk years ago. Stong on petrol and too woodsy for my tastes, this stinky is not delicious.
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4/16/2008 - drwine2001 wrote:
Mostly French Dinner in Honor of Ken Birman (Conduit, San Francisco): Light tawny color. Very appealing, complex initial impression with cedar and crystallized fruit. Notably, no overripeness or stewed flavors despite this notoriously hot year. Unfortunately, this quickly turns leaner and greener with intrusive wood. Best right out of the bottle, then a steady, inexorable downhill course. Past peak and a disappointment given its reputation. Preferred the '81 tasted recently.
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1/10/2008 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 85 Points
Well, this bottle lowers my batting average on this wine; seems the great bottle was the fluke. This still has some hard, grainy, unresolved tannin that undermines Bosconia's usual delicacy.
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1/6/2008 - dream wrote: 92 Points
Slightly fading ruby color. Gorgeous nose of earthy, cherry perfume. Very ripe and intense with strong acidity. Intense flavors of ripe dark cherries along with Rioja earthiness. A lively, high-toned, intensely ripe wine with a seductive, ethereal texture. It's hard not to love these wines once you get used to them.
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12/3/2007 - kstoddard wrote: 88 Points
G7 (Alex): Caramel, gingerbread, cherries and violets. Mature fruit with a nice charred oak character. Somewhat bitter on the finish.
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11/26/2007 - gordoyflaca wrote: 95 Points
A unique experience. Bottle dirty. neck/top covered in hard sealing was difficult to remove. Cork was black, loose, and with slight pressure from corkscrew slipped into bottle. Black gunk lined inside of the bottle neck, which smelled intensely of damp mold. However what was in the bottle was wonderful. Vibrant and complex, very floral / perfumey remarkable nose, smooth mouthfeel, still with structure/fine tannins, long finish.
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9/2/2007 - mmager wrote:
WineKatz - Labor Day tasting (West Seattle, WA): Labor Day tasting - Main Flight wine
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8/8/2007 - MRichman wrote:
Lopez de Heredia Vertical (NYC): Floral & soft. Delicate. Light core.
B/B+
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8/8/2007 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 98 Points
Mucho Lopez (Il Corso): A great bottle of this in comparison to a lighter, more granularly textured example I had a few weeks ago. A classic Old World bouquet of sweet "barnyard" scents more pungent than the rest of the lineup, and everything on the palate you want Bosconia to be, rounded in shape but sticky with sap and gaining detail on the fresh herbal finish.
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6/8/2007 - GrandeSerataFuori wrote: 91 Points
Bottle was dirty with clay - cork was in bad shape and rotted at the top, but pulled fine. I just love the color and nose of these old Lopez wines. Had the pleasure of sharing it with friends and some home cooked tapas. Reddish-brown for sure, but with a good bit of color still. I got soft wood, old cherries and some leather in the nose. So soft and wonderful. Prob wont buy more at the price, but what a treat.
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4/28/2007 - dream wrote: 94 Points
Fairly faded browning color. Wild nose of rotting cherries, petrol, menthol, spicy wood and a hint of shoe polish. What a fabulous, unique wine that couldn't be more opposite of a California Cabernet fruit bomb. In fact, it most reminds me of an old Burgundy but has the really lean, woodsy flavor of an old Rioja with wonderful stinky, decadent cherry fruit. Should still improve with time because of it's spine of firm acidity. Gorgeous intensity and old world flavor on the spicy, saucy, complex finish.
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1/28/2007 - dream wrote: 93 Points
Very faded color with significant browning. Wonderful nose of spicy cherries, old wood, a hint of shoe polish and sweet cream. Has a fantastic, creamy mouthfeel with vibrant cherry fruit and complex woodsy spices. The wine has a juicy fresh intensity and great lift for a 30-year old wine. Performs much more like an old red Burgundy than anything else but the wonderful woodsy flavors of Rioja stand out. This is superb stuff and a bargain in today's wine world.
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12/31/2006 - ChrisR wrote:
Not as good as my other bottle. This one was barely holding onto life. Brown, faint cherry, acidic, best upon opening (with air it turned increasingly sour).
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12/16/2006 - pbjosh wrote: 95 Points
Beautiful brilliant translucent garnet with some bricking and clearing at the rim. Immense and captivating nose of sour baking cherries, cedar, vanilla, warm dusty earth, rhubarb and more. Medium to full bodied with a sweet, plush, and pure presence in the mouth. Sweet fruits and vibrant acidity are well balanced to make this simply a pleasure. Finishes with a penetrating quality though with only medium length. Nonetheless awesome. Fully mature, drink up in my opinion.
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8/29/2006 - BillB656 wrote:
Super elegant, fragrant nose of dried flowers, dried fruit and old wood, soft mouth feel with very subtle flavors and finely integrated tannins. This is a wine that deserves to be enjoyed on its own.
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8/19/2006 - Rieslingfan wrote:
Marvelously aromatic if idiosyncratic wine. There's always the scent of oxidation, but flowery complexity, red fruit and soil infused aromas and flavors. Delicious but in an intellectual not hedonistic way.
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4/21/2006 - psmith wrote:
Finally a good bottle. Elegant sour cherry and dusty brick notes. Classic Rioja - a charming wine.
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3/19/2006 - ChrisR wrote: 90 Points
The bottle did not appear to be in good shape, especially since the wax capsule was chipped off, but the cork was in good shape. Very musty odors at first, but it blew off in the glass. Color was a sort of reddish-brown, medium body. Sour black cherries that sweetened as it opened up, oak spice, minerals and a strong backbone of acidity that went well with dinner. I was worried at first, but with air, the fruit livened up, the spice became stronger and it came together. Quite an interesting wine.
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2/8/2006 - carlwhat wrote: 93 Points
still very vibrant and delicious wine... beatutiful aromas and flavor... very delicate....
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12/15/2005 - psmith wrote: 70 Points
Finally, a semi-drinkable bottle of this. Muted but pretty nose shows some iron and dusty black cherry, as well as some old-bones nail polish notes. Salty and sharp on the palate, lots of sea foam with only traces of fruit. Dominated by unclean acids and musty notes. Lost any of the charm it had within a half-hour.
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11/13/2005 - psmith wrote:
Another bad bottle. I'm not happy to have 2 more of these.
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10/24/2005 - psmith wrote:
Old bones on the nose. Nail polish, some muted sour cherry. Some earthy notes and underlying class here but past it's prime - probably a storage issue. */5
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10/24/2005 - AndrewSGHall wrote:
Ill-treated some where along the line. Very old tasting, tired. Acetic notes, brick dust. Descent into tart rotted cherries and more acetic. Triste.
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7/3/2005 - LoireFan wrote: 91 Points
Past its prime but still enjoyable. If this was $40, I'd get 2 more. But at $90-$100, no.
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