2004 Bodegas Castaño Monastrell Dulce

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 88.4 points

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  10/1/2017 - professor widget Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Paired wine with Winnie's blackberry and apple crumble. Dessert had enough blackberries to match the wine's dark fruit profile. 16% alcohol, so not as heady as a Port. Very smooth, everything in place. Last of a half dozen, 500ml bottles. Well-priced compared with the French equivalent.

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  9/20/2009 - David J Cooper wrote:

  Dark purple. Very grapey nose. Lots of sweet fruit notes in the nose and mouth. Pretty good on the first night but not as great as WA makes it out to be.

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  4/15/2008 - dre wrote:

  Clear, deep dark purple core that leads out to a very vibrant ruby red rim. Wine looks very concentrated and youthful.
  The nose is huge with massive raspberry, chocolate, welches grape and plum. light woodyness.
  The palate shows a sweet wine with loads of raspberry, marachino cherry, plum and current. Chocolate shavings, fig newton and some pencil lead make up the mid-palate. Really it is quite simple with some oakyness comming through on the long finnish. This its high octane fruit all the way. med acidity but not enough to still make the massive body of this wine not feel flaby.
  
  Good quality, very interesting. Im going to buy another bottle or 2 and see what happens to this wonderful monastrell in a few years.
  Im going to say hold 3 years for the fruit to die down a bit and wait for some more complex flavors to rear their heads.

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  2/12/2008 - gabriella wrote:

  Inky dark burgandy red, with a slightly cloudy core. On the nose this wine is clustered with various competing yet rich and restrained red fruit aromas such as kirch, cassis, cooked strawberries and rich raspberries. If my nose lingers long enough, I can also pick out subtle forest notes and dark chocolate shaving. The palate is sensually silky with fine tannins and a luxurious coat of blueberry, rapsberry and earthy flavors that linger right up until the finish until the acidity gently sweeps it away, leaving my tongue clean and fresh. Although viscous in the mouth, I don't weighed down, but rather treated to a mildly sweet gift. Great wine! 4/5

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  2/12/2008 - obiscoito wrote:

  Deep and dark reddish purple color to this wine. The nose on this show dark raspberry and cherry aromas with kirsch notes, and chocolaty brambles. Really a welcoming nose with a lot going for it. In the mouth this wine is fully sweet with fine and pervasive tannin coating over it all. Medium acidity balances it nicely to keep it from being cloying. Meaty flavor with plenty of fruit, minerals and earth. Think bright raspberry flavors with light wood and chocolate notes dancing in and out. 4/5

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