Spicy, savoury & Meaty aroma, along with spicy ending. Lack structure. Warm woody, vanilla notes when the wine opened up..... needs an hour of decanting... caramel too
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Rather faint on the nose, with earthy and cherry flavours. On the palate this is full; savoury with black cherries, barnyard and spicy notes. Slightly tart, fruity flavours without being sweet and round, which is probably why it didn't win much fans across the table. Don't think the fruit will hold much longer, so this is certainly ready to drink. Long, dry finish. A solid, proper wine!
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Dinner at Giant Garoupa (Yuan Wei Deep-Sea Garoupa, Serangoon Road): Good. I did not like this wine very much the last time round, so this was a very pleasant surprise. It had a really nice nose of damp earth and smoke wed to dark cherry and cassis aromas. On the more modern side of Tempranillo maybe, but this is a Ribera after all. The palate was still marked with very high acidity, but this now came across as freshnes rather than the slightly tart feel that the wine had a few years back. In fact, the acidity helped to give the wine a very focused, defined feel, realy clean in spite of the litle layer of fine tannins that was drawn across its mid-weighted flavours of black cherries and cassis. Simple, but a real pleasure to drink. The finish floated away very nicely too, with a final kiss of cigarette smoke. Good stuff - this made me wonder whether the last bottle some four years back was flawed, or if it was going through an awkward stage.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Nose is quite expressive with its floral tones along with chalky red berry with little bit of secondary aromas. Palate is slight tannic but able to cover by its ripe fruits profile to a slight rubbery finish. Skip.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Deep dark color. Nose--is this CDP? Quite a bit of barnyard along with spice and earth with undertones of dark fruit. Taste is a burnt chokecherry along with almond pit. Very firm tannins but tasting well now.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Family Christmas Private Dining with Mrs Sam Leong (Lake Point): Lots of moist moss growing on rainforest tree. Still showing lots of powdery tannins and roughness on the palate , this seems more well integrated than previously tasted with classical dark berry / cherry fruits that showed much more than previous and was even a bit alluring. A second wind? Short finish though.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Hit it on day 2 and you'll be pleased when it calms down enough for you to grab hold. Lovely with spicy pasta, tomatoes and black olives. Lots of sediment. The edges soften and it becomes voluptuous and flirtatious...a real shot in the arm to counter your everyday humdrum, matronly standby.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Like a Grand Reserva -- soft, silky and smooth. Delightful. Better than it has been before. But maybe that because I new what I was getting into this time. Previous times I have thought in terms of Peter Sissecks other wines, big a busty, which is not what this is. So a plesant suprise.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Tasted at Otis' Cellar Diminishment Party. 2nd time I have had it. Last was in 2003. Time to drink the 10 year old wine if you still have any. Dark red color. No bricking. The fruit is holding but starting to fade. 88 points.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Makansutra Outing @ Cafe de HK (Balestier Road): Looks dark for its age. Brooding dark fruit aromas soaked in soy. Extremely youthful for its age with primary dark berry fruit still dominating. Extracted style. Mouth coating tannins. Feels ageable but not an easily likeable wine and is for the moment still kinda a hard wine to drink. Somehow this bottle was not as ready as the first two bottles I have had. Weird.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
I got a little sulfur when I stuck my nose in the glass, but it blew off after a minute or so. The nose is very elegant with cherry and warm spices. On the palate, the tannins are almost seamless. It has warm cherry flavors, and is a very elegant wine. It finishes wonderfully long with lingering cherry. Ben says it drinks like mature claret, and I have to agree. Excellent wine.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Spanish Gems from World Class Producers (Caveau): Garnet with brownish hue. Crushed tangerines with soil-covered mushrooms add a dash of spice. Tomatoey on the fore with orange peel gently brushing the mid palate. This wine has a gentle grip on the mouthfeel that is stronger than a caress but lighter than a hold. Some nail varnish and chalky tannins. Nearing the end, this became very much diluted prune juice. Short finish.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Spanish Gems from World Class Producers (Caveau, Singapore): This has been well received by professional tasters and I was looking for good QPR, but ended up rather disappointed. Not a bad wine, but not a good one either. Nine years from the vintage, the wine still had a pretty dark core colour, with its edges just shading garnet. Nose was rather pleasantly savoury, showing umami, mushroom, soy and game characteristics, with plummy fruit and a lilttle peppery-spiced bit blended in somewhere. Very bright on the palate, high acid, more Rioja than Ribera del Duero to my taste - cherry tomato-ish in its fresh, slightly sourish tang. Some prune flavours nestled amongst the acid and rather chalky, teeth-coating tannins. It finished short and woody with a hint of strange hint of nail varnish. This is another wine that really needs food to show itself well, the plain crackers that we had just would not do. I did not fine this wine unplesant, but it was the most one-dimensional and uninteresting of all the wines on show.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Quite unexpectedly good. Unexpect for two reasons. First, I have always found this to be the weakest of Peter Sissecks wines. It has always been too oaked or too herby as if searching for a soul and applying makeup instead. This wine, however, was a revelation. Once upon a time I thought we would find a new "claret" in Spain. I no longer think we will, no should we want to, but this wine was of the style and extremely pleasing. Maybe Villacreces needs 9 years to find its soul.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
This wine was a dark brooding reddish purple in color. 100% Temperanillo. It had dry tight tannins with notes of cassis, blackberry and tobacco. Medium bodied. I think Parker gave this 90 points. 89-90 from me.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
8/21/2018 - Gemofwine wrote: 85 Points
Spicy, savoury & Meaty aroma, along with spicy ending. Lack structure.
Warm woody, vanilla notes when the wine opened up..... needs an hour of decanting... caramel too
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
6/4/2012 - looiwt wrote: 89 Points
Rather faint on the nose, with earthy and cherry flavours. On the palate this is full; savoury with black cherries, barnyard and spicy notes. Slightly tart, fruity flavours without being sweet and round, which is probably why it didn't win much fans across the table. Don't think the fruit will hold much longer, so this is certainly ready to drink. Long, dry finish. A solid, proper wine!
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
4/4/2012 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points
Dinner at Giant Garoupa (Yuan Wei Deep-Sea Garoupa, Serangoon Road): Good. I did not like this wine very much the last time round, so this was a very pleasant surprise. It had a really nice nose of damp earth and smoke wed to dark cherry and cassis aromas. On the more modern side of Tempranillo maybe, but this is a Ribera after all. The palate was still marked with very high acidity, but this now came across as freshnes rather than the slightly tart feel that the wine had a few years back. In fact, the acidity helped to give the wine a very focused, defined feel, realy clean in spite of the litle layer of fine tannins that was drawn across its mid-weighted flavours of black cherries and cassis. Simple, but a real pleasure to drink. The finish floated away very nicely too, with a final kiss of cigarette smoke. Good stuff - this made me wonder whether the last bottle some four years back was flawed, or if it was going through an awkward stage.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
4/4/2012 - Mingmong wrote: 93 Points
Lovely nose dark cherry, soft elegant, actually thought it is a left bank bord, soft tannins and low acid. It is very good.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
6/19/2010 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
Nose is quite expressive with its floral tones along with chalky red berry with little bit of secondary aromas. Palate is slight tannic but able to cover by its ripe fruits profile to a slight rubbery finish. Skip.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
1/16/2010 - Bellissimo wrote: 89 Points
Deep dark color. Nose--is this CDP? Quite a bit of barnyard along with spice and earth with undertones of dark fruit. Taste is a burnt chokecherry along with almond pit. Very firm tannins but tasting well now.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
12/27/2009 - Alex H wrote: 81 Points
Family Christmas Private Dining with Mrs Sam Leong (Lake Point): Lots of moist moss growing on rainforest tree. Still showing lots of powdery tannins and roughness on the palate , this seems more well integrated than previously tasted with classical dark berry / cherry fruits that showed much more than previous and was even a bit alluring. A second wind? Short finish though.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
10/29/2009 - al-Zabba wrote:
Hit it on day 2 and you'll be pleased when it calms down enough for you to grab hold. Lovely with spicy pasta, tomatoes and black olives. Lots of sediment. The edges soften and it becomes voluptuous and flirtatious...a real shot in the arm to counter your everyday humdrum, matronly standby.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
9/14/2009 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Like a Grand Reserva -- soft, silky and smooth. Delightful. Better than it has been before. But maybe that because I new what I was getting into this time. Previous times I have thought in terms of Peter Sissecks other wines, big a busty, which is not what this is. So a plesant suprise.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
9/11/2009 - Vino Me wrote: 88 Points
Tasted at Otis' Cellar Diminishment Party. 2nd time I have had it. Last was in 2003. Time to drink the 10 year old wine if you still have any. Dark red color. No bricking. The fruit is holding but starting to fade. 88 points.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
1/12/2009 - Alex H wrote: 79 Points
Makansutra Outing @ Cafe de HK (Balestier Road): Looks dark for its age. Brooding dark fruit aromas soaked in soy. Extremely youthful for its age with primary dark berry fruit still dominating. Extracted style. Mouth coating tannins. Feels ageable but not an easily likeable wine and is for the moment still kinda a hard wine to drink. Somehow this bottle was not as ready as the first two bottles I have had. Weird.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
1/10/2009 - Beavis77 wrote:
I got a little sulfur when I stuck my nose in the glass, but it blew off after a minute or so. The nose is very elegant with cherry and warm spices. On the palate, the tannins are almost seamless. It has warm cherry flavors, and is a very elegant wine. It finishes wonderfully long with lingering cherry. Ben says it drinks like mature claret, and I have to agree. Excellent wine.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
8/25/2008 - Alex H wrote: 79 Points
Spanish Gems from World Class Producers (Caveau): Garnet with brownish hue. Crushed tangerines with soil-covered mushrooms add a dash of spice. Tomatoey on the fore with orange peel gently brushing the mid palate. This wine has a gentle grip on the mouthfeel that is stronger than a caress but lighter than a hold. Some nail varnish and chalky tannins. Nearing the end, this became very much diluted prune juice. Short finish.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
8/16/2008 - Paul S wrote: 88 Points
Spanish Gems from World Class Producers (Caveau, Singapore): This has been well received by professional tasters and I was looking for good QPR, but ended up rather disappointed. Not a bad wine, but not a good one either. Nine years from the vintage, the wine still had a pretty dark core colour, with its edges just shading garnet. Nose was rather pleasantly savoury, showing umami, mushroom, soy and game characteristics, with plummy fruit and a lilttle peppery-spiced bit blended in somewhere. Very bright on the palate, high acid, more Rioja than Ribera del Duero to my taste - cherry tomato-ish in its fresh, slightly sourish tang. Some prune flavours nestled amongst the acid and rather chalky, teeth-coating tannins. It finished short and woody with a hint of strange hint of nail varnish. This is another wine that really needs food to show itself well, the plain crackers that we had just would not do. I did not fine this wine unplesant, but it was the most one-dimensional and uninteresting of all the wines on show.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
7/13/2008 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
Quite unexpectedly good. Unexpect for two reasons. First, I have always found this to be the weakest of Peter Sissecks wines. It has always been too oaked or too herby as if searching for a soul and applying makeup instead. This wine, however, was a revelation. Once upon a time I thought we would find a new "claret" in Spain. I no longer think we will, no should we want to, but this wine was of the style and extremely pleasing. Maybe Villacreces needs 9 years to find its soul.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
8/12/2005 - Mlermontov wrote: 86 Points
The Brussels Offline - a Gallop through the WineWorld (Chris Cook's House): light, oaky, lacking fruit. not up to the task even in this flight.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
2/29/2004 - R2-D2 wrote: 90 Points
Blueberries w/pepper, earth, leather ... fairly one sided with the blueberries, but damn fine wine.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
4/10/2003 - Vino Me wrote: 90 Points
This wine was a dark brooding reddish purple in color. 100% Temperanillo. It had dry tight tannins with notes of cassis, blackberry and tobacco. Medium bodied. I think Parker gave this 90 points. 89-90 from me.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment