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2/11/2022 - gnosis2 Likes this wine:
Fantastic! Absolutely worth the wait until 2022 to open this. I got this bottle about 10 years ago. This is after the fact, and I didn't decant it much at all and drank it over 2 days. It didn't change much and held up. Pretty much agree with the last taster Rsilverst from 2014, but obviously with evolution. I kept raving to others about it. Balanced, nice fruit and structure, some light tannin, not oaky now, not tired, but older and burnished in a way that is so good and just can't be rushed. Not over the hill at 26! So good on its own and with food. These old Riojas can really be true gems.
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7/26/2014 - rsilverst Likes this wine: 91 Points
To start: we don't agree with the other comments that this wine was "nothing but oak"
The color really shows the age, maroon, with orangey-brown tinges toward edge, somewhat translucent.
The nose had a combination of dark cooked or preserved fruit, some barnyard, earthy, vaguely spicy, very slightly smoky.
Low-to-medium tannin, low acid, very smooth and balanced on palate, not dry.
The flavor similar to the nose.
Finish, if you can believe it, is still a little tannic, a little bitter.
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5/11/2014 - bramwessel wrote:
There's some of this around in wine shops these days and it's nothing but oak; the fruit is almost completely gone. Tastes like vanilla extract. Not recommended.
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4/26/2014 - bramwessel wrote:
My bottle was enormously oaky. The oak really buried the fruit.
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6/8/2013 - mreinitz wrote: 91 Points
We really enjoyed this. Surprisingly lively for a 17-year-old wine. Really delicious red cherry fruit dominated the palate along with pleasant background secondary flavors. The wine was probably oaky in its youth, but the oak had spread out into the wine to become a sort of enjoyable background hum. No brett at all. A pleasure.
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