Enjoyable Ribera del Duero with some cherry liquor, leather and raspberries. Good drinking right now and not over the top. Missing some complexity but goes well with a pork roast.
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In a really interesting place right now - I'm going to say it's past its peak, a little toward "leathery old wine," but if that's the cost, the benefit is a very complete and silky integration - 14% alcohol and you wouldn't know it, a nose that (oddly enough) says "Pinot Noir" to me, the palate still has an acidic backbone, there's a nice progression of subtle cherry-strawberry-red raspberry fruit flavors and some reticent and superfine tannins eventually coming in. Perhaps pure Tinto Fino/Tempranillo is a fragile thing, but this bottle is still hanging together nicely now.
I don't remember buying it, nor why or how much I paid. It's a relatively modest "Denominacion de origen" wine, which is like the Italian DOC and the French AOC. I think, however, that the same principle with some villages-level Burgundy wines applies - that well-made wine, often with sufficient age on it, can be surprisingly good.
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10/26/2023 - Ibbjepp wrote:
Mkt god. Med Schlyter.
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4/14/2020 - Klugi Wine wrote: 89 Points
Enjoyable Ribera del Duero with some cherry liquor, leather and raspberries. Good drinking right now and not over the top. Missing some complexity but goes well with a pork roast.
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12/20/2019 - Old Doug wrote: 92 Points
In a really interesting place right now - I'm going to say it's past its peak, a little toward "leathery old wine," but if that's the cost, the benefit is a very complete and silky integration - 14% alcohol and you wouldn't know it, a nose that (oddly enough) says "Pinot Noir" to me, the palate still has an acidic backbone, there's a nice progression of subtle cherry-strawberry-red raspberry fruit flavors and some reticent and superfine tannins eventually coming in. Perhaps pure Tinto Fino/Tempranillo is a fragile thing, but this bottle is still hanging together nicely now.
I don't remember buying it, nor why or how much I paid. It's a relatively modest "Denominacion de origen" wine, which is like the Italian DOC and the French AOC. I think, however, that the same principle with some villages-level Burgundy wines applies - that well-made wine, often with sufficient age on it, can be surprisingly good.
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6/1/2017 - Martnmac wrote: 90 Points
Wow. Outstanding. Great right now. Decant give 20 mins and just enjoy. Fab
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9/5/2016 - John McCabe wrote: 92 Points
Excellent value, this wine has a surprising lift, a kind of bright sweetness that is charming, while there is still backbone.
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