Variety: Tempranillo
Region: Rioja
Country: Spain
Year: 2010
Price: $8.95
Vintage Cellar notes: Ripe cherry and black currant on the nose and in the mouth. Pliant and seamless in texture with good heft and back-end energy. Finishes smooth and sweet, with fine grained tannins, providing shape and grip. Still on the young side, but this wine drinks very well with an hour or so of decanting; it's an excellent value for Rioja.
This one smelled quite strongly at first sniff. I could smell a lot of alcohol coming through, which made me wary of what was going to come. Smelled sort of jammy as well. Not as hot as I expected it to taste like, fairly good balance. It was dry yet still a little sweet, definitely caught the cherry notes, also thought of blackberries when tasting. Good wine, would like to try again after another year or two.
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