2012 La Rioja Alta Rioja Viña Ardanza Reserva

Community Tasting Notes (242) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  4/14/2024 - ThijsV Likes this wine: 92 Points

  First bottle of my 2012 case. Really good, stood firmly for 4 days. Elegant nose with fire stone, black cherry, licorice. Medium+ acidic, medium sandy integrated tannins, medium+ finish

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  4/7/2024 - dcbell Likes this wine: 93 Points

  On day one this was a little hollow and out of kilter, but was absolutely super on days two and three - so decant if drinking now or leave another few years.
  
  Intense, rich, and complex nose which really draws you in - an absolute joy to keep coming back to and one where you keep finding yourself discovering new aromas. Ripe red and black berries, woody spicy and perfume, musk, slightly animal notes, some engine oil - the whole menagerie. Quite a dense palate, still with a lot of tannin and acidity which perhaps outstrips the flavour intensity a little and makes it one which shines more with some food presently. Nonetheless a very well made wine which offers a lot of pleasure, great value too as is always the case for Ardanza.

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  3/17/2024 - rocknroller wrote: flawed

  Women Who Wine & Their Arm Candy (Estelle, St. Paul, MN): Corked, though somewhat less overt.

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  3/16/2024 - DB Lawton Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Has continued to mellow out and evolve a bit since my last note. Had this at a dinner party with corned beef (St Patrick’s) so not as much of a contemplative tasting as it deserved. That probably cost it a point or two. No issues with alcohol, or oak. Good comments from the hostess too.

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  3/13/2024 - Rhone Rick Likes this wine: 93 Points

  You know how you taste a bottle out of a case & it is just “off” relative to the others & you chalk it up to being a bit corked or such… is there an opposite to that?!! Just opened one expecting to really like it, like Leya but only because I have hots for the cuter sister Rachel (the 904)… but this blows the doors off. Not watery, smooth and super balanced, funk and tobacco and acid. Makes me swoon….

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