1998 Hacienda Monasterio Ribera del Duero

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  12/22/2018 - t.c.green Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Shared with Tennessee family with smoked ham. The wine is in it's prime, elegant with enough tannin to hold up to the smoke of the ham.

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  3/3/2009 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Wow, this wine just keeps on developing beautifully. Unfortunately, this was my last bottle. Extremely Claret-like with pencil shavings and camphor aromatics. Perfect medium weight, beautifully integrated acidity, pure blackberry and plum fruit. The wood that was so apparent early on has been seamlessly absorbed. Count this Temparanillo skeptic as very impressed; I wish I had more to follow and drink.

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  10/14/2008 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Medium ruby, several tones darker than the previous '99 Rioja. Poised, laid back nose, thankfully with only a fraction of the wood that the previous wine had. Medium weight but with a core of more chewy, rich black fruit and licorice. Very good length, balance, and round tannins. This wine has shown better and better every time I've opened it over the past year and a half and was a welcome foil to the relatively fruitless, charmless Lopez de Heredia tonight.

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  5/24/2008 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Medium red with faded edge. Tart cherry, blackberry, and then camphor aromatics. Hooray, little wood signature! Lean and crisp with strong acids, but a nice layer of flesh and fruit covering the underlying structure. Very Bordeaux-like in many respects. This bottle was much more expressive and less angular than the one I noted 15 months ago; it's hard to believe that this reflects only rapid development and makes me wonder whether the last one was so muted due to subtle TCA problems.

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  2/14/2007 - drwine2001 wrote:

  One of the most neutral impressions I've gotten recently, and a very difficult wine to read at this point. Medium color with some hints of maturity. Little on the nose at first; with decanting, time, and vigorous swirling, eventually some stoniness and fleeting floral and black cherry aromas. Prominent acids dominated early tastes, but these calmed down to reveal...not much else, but the mouth feel was good, not as angular and lean as the nose and initial impression might have suggested. I'll give this the benefit of the doubt and say this bottle was at a dumb stage, but I don't think the wine will ever be great and I am certain it will never be particularly opulent.

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