2016 Bodegas Burgo Viejo Rioja Licenciado Reserva

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  1/13/2024 - PacoHigon Likes this wine:

  Monovarietal de tempranillo. 18 meses de crianza. Color granate. Nariz bastante expresiva con cierto aire clásico, dominan los terciarios, sobre una expresión de fruta roja madura. Hay especias dulces, maderas finas, clavo, pan tostado. En boca tiene buen ataque, cuerpo medio, tanino bien integrado, bastante frescura, estructurado y persistencia media/larga.

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  10/3/2023 - winesnout Does not like this wine: 90 Points

  Not my type of Rioja! Bought six bottles because Decanter Magazine awarded it a 95 rating. This is anything but a traditional Rioja. It is full-bodied, super-smooth and pruny. Lots of oak spices, loads of vanilla, roasted aromas, coffee, pepper and herbal notes. It's lacking freshness and structure that especially the traditional bodegas from Rioja Alta so wonderfully provide. It might be a real crowd pleaser - not my style. 90 points (if at all) but definitely not 95.

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  6/13/2023 - apple1813 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  2016 Bodegas Burgo Viejo Rioja Licenciado Reserva combines generous ripe fruits and oak spices. The developing Rioja is medium ruby without any sediments. It opens up considerably on the second day. Aromas of black cherry, ripe redcurrant, thyme and black pepper are followed by butterscotch and earth.
  
  The dry and verging full-bodied mouthfeel is matched with a medium level of acidity and a medium-high level of powdery tannin. There are flavours of blackcurrant, graphite, vanilla, dill and lavender herbs in a medium lively finish. It tastes more robust than the stated 13.5% alcohol, probably because of the abundance of ripe fruits and spices. The empty bottle weighs 614 grams.
  
  The vines are cultivated in the sub-region Rioja Oriental, the eastern, warmer, low-elevation part of the wider Rioja region. The cuvée is 100% Tempranillo, raised in a combination of French and American oak barrels for eighteen months.

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  6/8/2023 - moonlight0077 wrote:

  5

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  1/9/2023 - tannictongue Likes this wine:

  If I was a scaler , I’d give it low 90’s on 100 Pt scale and 8 on a 10 Pt scale.

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