Holy Moly - was in a hurry to pick up a bottle at the beach and scored this for $20 and it was absolutely stunning: inky color, completely opaque w/outstanding complexity on nose: plums & cassis, smoke, dried herbs, scorched Earth, sweet spice like cinnamon, roasted coffee mingled w/mocha, pipe tobacco and so on. Just kept evolving. Thought this was all Tempranillo based on DO - although I’ve had some nice Garnacha from this region, but I swore there were Bordeaux varietals. After some research determined there is CS & M. Seamless, expansive, well-done + totally over delivers QPR. I’m going back to buy them out of stock.
Holy Moly - was in a hurry to pick up a bottle at the beach and scored this for $20 and it was absolutely stunning: inky color, completely opaque w/outstanding complexity on nose: plums & cassis, smoke, dried herbs, scorched Earth, sweet spice like cinnamon, roasted coffee mingled w/mocha, pipe tobacco and so on. Just kept evolving. Thought this was all Tempranillo based on DO - although I’ve had some nice Garnacha from this region, but I swore there were Bordeaux varietals. After some research determined there is CS & M. Seamless, expansive, well-done + totally over delivers QPR. I’m going back to buy them out of stock.
Jul 24th, 2022
Señorio de Arínzano, Navarra, Spain
