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Intense red and dark berry scents... Sweet and focused on the palate, offering juicy cherry and blackberry flavors that open up slowly on the back half.
Rubbery blackberry and peppery spice aromas lead to a palate with piercing acidity that might be perceived as shrill. Tangy red-plum flavors are so intense and shear that there's a citric element to this cool-vintage Rioja. On the finish, which is racy and choppy in feel, spice notes return.
Spicy and richly fruited – the sweetness of blueberry and blackberry, and some vanilla sweetness, but there is s still a rather nice dusty, savoury quality... Much more savoury on the palate. There’s plenty of fruit but there’s also a dry leathery quality and more elegance... Creamy texture on the mid palate and then chewy tannins on the finish.