Vanessa D

9.0

Deep purple hue with some garnet. Extraction on the glass and medium-plus tearing. Nose offers black fruit, such as fresh blackberries, black cherry, and currant notes; also molasses, clove, spice, cured meat, and vegetal notes. Tartness and acidity on the palate, lending balance. Also strong tannins with anise and dusty leather notes on the palate. Vintage 2014. 15% ABV. #aalto #riberadelduero #riberadelduerowine #tintofino #spanishwine #oldworld #oakagedwine #meseta #winewednesday #winedownwednesdays — a month ago

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MICHAEL COOPER

Owner TomeVinos wine shops, WSET Level 3, Blogger www.spanishwinesandmore.com, blog.tomevinos.com

9.1

With the exception of Vega Sicilia, I am just not into older #Riberadelduero I feel like they don’t age well, there’s so much maturity and they all seem to express dark, concentrated, rust, soy and molasses flavors. This was delicious, but I would say one year more and it would be past it’s prime. — a year ago

MICHAEL COOPER

Owner TomeVinos wine shops, WSET Level 3, Blogger www.spanishwinesandmore.com, blog.tomevinos.com

9.0

Medium ruby, clear and bright medium+ nose of primary aromas like red fruits (raspberry, cherry, red plum) pungent spice (licorice) secondary aromas of oak (vanilla, butterscotch, chocolate) and MLF (cream). On the palate it's dry with sweet ripe fruit like red fruits (raspberry, cherry, red plum) and spicey new oak flavors (cedar, vanilla and butterscotch) and pungent spices like licorice. Medium + acidity, high alcohol and a medium+ ripe tannin. Medium body and medium+ intensity flavors. Medium+ finish that leaves a sweet red fruit and butterscotch flavor. Very good wine due to the typicity of a #riberadelduero #roble #tempranillo wine a nice balance between ripe fruits medium+ refreshing acidity and a soft ripe tannin. The complexity and elegance are very good for a young wine. Mature. drink now and good for next 2-4 years. — 2 years ago

Douglas Renall

9.2

Silky smooth vino - concentrated and spicy with rustic, dusty tannins. I can smell, taste and sense the #riberadelduero with this one — 3 months ago

MICHAEL COOPER

Owner TomeVinos wine shops, WSET Level 3, Blogger www.spanishwinesandmore.com, blog.tomevinos.com

9.1

Deep color. Almost inky. Savage aromas and flavors. Pure blackberries and blueberries. Textural palate and tannins, just that right amount of scratchiness. #tempranillo #riberadelduero — a year ago

David Kline

9.3

Day 3: Heavy mushrooms framed by sage and cedar, with chamomile and pork fat. There is persimmon, nutmeg, dried grapes, tar, dark raisin bread, tobacco leaf, and poppy seed. This thing was an unwieldy wooden baton on Saturday night; a real leather daddy. It has since opened into a lumberjack in a leather tunic felling a large birch near a meadow of scorched wildflower. He’s sweating, and lightly peppered. Grilled apple, eel skin, dried black currant, dried roses, rawhide, marinated plum, and a tart persistence that is neither graphite, or smoke, but something similar with a dry-rubbed saline-sweetness in the mix. Delicious! Took forever, and I knew it was a bad idea to open so young, but we did it! #callejo #riberadeldueronothing #riberadelduero #NoSpainNoGain #spanishwines #spanishwine #FelixCallejo #bigredwines — 2 years ago

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Vasanth Balakrishnan

9.0

Fruit-forward #riberadelduero #crianza potent cassis, blackberry aroma, lovely balance of acidity, oak and fruit. Some cocoa and spice on the finish and lively tannins on long-trail finish.
— 9 months ago

Paco Suro

9.1

Young. Great structure. #riberadelduero — a year ago

Peter van den Besselaar

8.9

Vintage 2017 / Young, playfull, frivolous. Wagonloads of red fruit. Plums. At restaurant De Jonge Dikkert at Amstelveen. #riberadelduero Partnered with venison. — a year ago

Charles (Chad) Bucklin

Owner and founder of C. T. Bucklin Wine Advising

8.6

Great nose with brooding black fruit and high complexity. Full body on the palate with alcohol standing out. Lacked complexity on palate. Warm finish. #torravalo #vizcarra #riberadelduero #tinto #tempranillo #ctbucklinwine #spain — 2 years ago