Importer: Parador Selections
Source: Astor
Consumption Date: 9/5/2012
Notes: High-toned aroma of
warm herbs, spices, vanilla, and fruit (black currant) with a woody/leafy note
and a distinctive mildly medicinal, alcohol quality. Medium bodied with intense fruit (dark
cherries and mild black currant); a dry, woody, leafy character with an edge of
slightly bitter herbs framed by a mild chocolate note. Finishes long with sweet fruit and leafy, dry
wood and chocolate notes. Moderate
tannin.
This wine has proven to be a
bit puzzling, although enjoyable, and pleasantly challenging. While seemingly an intensely fruity, but
simple wine, this actually has a compelling complexity to it. While perhaps not as well balanced or as
elegant as I expect from Rioja Gran Reservas, it has enough interesting
components, including an unexpected fruitiness for the style, to be intriguing.
Value: Good
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