complex and tasty. — 3 years ago
Good minerality — 5 years ago
Transparent brick color. Aged flavor. Mid body. Complexity. Baron de Lajoyasa Gran Reserva 10 @6490, Pieroth, 241011,88
Earthy, concentrated. Oak, vanilla. Traditional. Black fruits including black cherry, black berry. Spicy. Powerful. Earthy +. 2nd day much better. @6490, Pieroth, 241011-241102,89 — a month ago
Aspirational label with all the raised embossed stuff and the gold on black. But light weight like it’s not supposed to be aged. Well I’m doing 2012 in 2021. Interesting mix (Temp, Granacha, & Cariñena). Dark-ish. Slightly ruby. Smells like mashed tart berries of some sort. Rhubarb. Rhubarb and strawberry crisp filling before it’s cooked. Also something vegetal and green. Like cut shoots on a spring willow. Flavors are nice. Balanced, biting and juyceyyy! Lots of kinds of cherries and berries and some minty, bright streak. Lingers long with well made berry jam notes. This is a nice blend right out of the gran Españ a playbook. So damn juuuiiicy! — 4 years ago
Very surprising. Cloves and orange spice on the nose. Bittersweet orange zest, burnt honey taste, followed by a kombucha funk. — 4 years ago
Petaluma gap! Delicious. — 2 years ago
Robert Ahlstrom
Big, fruity, herbal, nicely balanced RR PN. Bay leaves and cherries on the palate — a month ago