This still is fantastic and can probably go for many more years. It’s length is simply amazing with great complexity and some youthfulness as well. I simply love Valbuenas.
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Doubled decanted to serve. Mocha, chocolate, liquorice and dark fruit. Deep and brooding yet very youthful and primary deapite its age. Mouth-coating after taste. It can easily age another 20 years. The more old Valbuena I drank, the more I appreciate how undervalued these wines are.
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Wonderfully rich and sweet, even next to an old Unico. Dark and concentrated with toasted oak, chocolate and coffee and with air surprisingly fudge and marmalade! In the mouth is sweet black-cherry, raison, caramel and toffee. Needs careful pairing with food given the sweetness. Drink to 2030. 95pts
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Quite mature but still very much alive and complex bouquet with barnyard, chocolate, coffee, cedar, smoke, vanilla, butterscotch and minerals. Same on the palate. I can add currants, meaty flavors, a touch of sweetness, beautiful acidity, totally integrated tannin and an enormous length. Truly great and beautiful wine which, if you have a properly stored bottle, can still last several years. Imho 95 is a proper score for this wine.
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10/24/2022 - popasq Likes this wine: 97 Points
Still fantastic!
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12/28/2021 - popasq Likes this wine: 97 Points
This still is fantastic and can probably go for many more years. It’s length is simply amazing with great complexity and some youthfulness as well. I simply love Valbuenas.
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7/27/2019 - Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 Points
Doubled decanted to serve. Mocha, chocolate, liquorice and dark fruit. Deep and brooding yet very youthful and primary deapite its age. Mouth-coating after taste. It can easily age another 20 years. The more old Valbuena I drank, the more I appreciate how undervalued these wines are.
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11/6/2016 - JulianSkeels wrote: 95 Points
Wonderfully rich and sweet, even next to an old Unico. Dark and concentrated with toasted oak, chocolate and coffee and with air surprisingly fudge and marmalade! In the mouth is sweet black-cherry, raison, caramel and toffee. Needs careful pairing with food given the sweetness. Drink to 2030. 95pts
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4/25/2015 - Zweder wrote: 95 Points
Quite mature but still very much alive and complex bouquet with barnyard, chocolate, coffee, cedar, smoke, vanilla, butterscotch and minerals. Same on the palate. I can add currants, meaty flavors, a touch of sweetness, beautiful acidity, totally integrated tannin and an enormous length. Truly great and beautiful wine which, if you have a properly stored bottle, can still last several years. Imho 95 is a proper score for this wine.
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