ITEM 10640771 - Removed from a professional wine storage facility
...has a textbook serious Haro nose, with dark spices, ripe fruit, something balsamic and a round, full-bodied palate within the straight and serious style of the wine...fine, slightly grainy tannins with good grip.
...notes of blackcurrants, tobacco, toasted spices, balsamic, and lead pencil give way to a full-bodied, beautifully textured 2012 with ripe, supple tannins, no hard edges, and a great finish...beautifully done and just a joy to drink...I love its elegance and finesse-driven style.
An intensely perfumed bouquet evokes ripe raspberry, cherry-cola, potpourri and exotic spices, with a suave vanilla topnote and a smoky mineral flourish. Sweet and broad in the mouth, offering lush red fruit, spicecake, mocha and coconut flavors... Finishes extremely long and spicy, with a resonating floral quality, well-knit tannins and lingering oak spice notes.
...beautiful wine with blackberries, bramble berries, rose petals and lemon grass. Medium to full body, ultra-fine tannins and a beautiful finish. Very fine-grained.
...bouquet is deep...offering up scents of black cherries, sweet dark berries, dried eucalyptus, Cuban cigars, a superb base of soil and a smoky foundation of American oak...pure, full-bodied, focused and beautifully plush down at the core, with fine-grained tannins, impeccable focus and balance and a very, very long, nascently complex finish.
Aromas of baked blueberry and prune on the nose... The solid palate brings dense berry and plum flavors that show a touch of raisin prior to a fruit-laden finish.
Loamy earth and forest floor notes frame cherry and currant flavors in this round red. Well-integrated tannins and fresh acidity keep this focused. Shows a nice balance of fruity and savory characteristics.
The oak here is both savoury and chocolatey... Seductive, mature sweetness of both fruit and oak and gorgeous leathery complexity. Chewy, so textured...plus a bite of freshness to balance the finish. A classic...
Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España (CVNE)