2009 Viticultor Goyo Garcia Viadero Valdeolmos

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  7/31/2016 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points

  No formal note. The nose on this is wonderful with primary dark red and blue fruits: some black raspberry, black berry and blueberry along with stones and minerals, and a nice bit of sauvage. The fruit on this is quite fresh and exuberant, not at all heavy. The palate is bright and juicy, with excellent fruit. The acid is high, and maybe a bit too much to be perfectly balanced. Nice stones and some earth and leather as well. Some citric aspects with the acid that carry into the finish. Nose - 5-5.5/6, Palate - 4.5-5/6, Finish - 4.5-5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 15-16.5/20.

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  2/26/2016 - JimmyBubbles Likes this wine: 92 Points

  La votaltil empieza a estar bastante arriba. Yo no guardaría mucho más.
  
  Es un vino terroso, arandanos, fresas acidas, arcilla, intenso pero elegante, fino, cacao. El vino va cambiando
  
  La boca es muy vertical, secante (dale de comer), un hilo de tempranillo en la boca, bastante frescura. Muy buen trabajo.

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  1/9/2015 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Ravishing beauty of a tempranillo. And not at all what I expected. Wine & Spirits did a feature on this producer recently and here is what they said about one of his other bottlings: "Viñas de Anguix may be the most concentrated of the García Viadero wines, the least floral, the most intense. However, in the context of any Ribera tasting, it would taste like a rosé from the Loire." So that prepped me to expect something practically gossamer here. But that is not the case at all. It is full, generous, sweetly fruited and even hearty. The texture is like sinking into a waterbed. This is pampering, spa-treatment-for-the-palate stuff. The experience is different from a Rioja because with Rioja the focus is often more on the effect of the elevage. Here there is no oak signature at all, neither the toasty signature of a modernist nor the autumnal, tertiary flavors of the traditional long elevage. (Obviously not, since this is a 2009.) The result is ultra-pure and ultra-seamless and frankly offers pretty much everything--elegance and richness in one.

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