Reserva Especial Rioja Tempranillo Blend

So alive, fresh and beautiful while being fully developed

An incredible wine. 🤯

Tasted blind. Dark tawny with good fruit, mocha, black cherry. Tannins fully resolved. This is clearly old and a CMF wine (Chateau Mind F***). The consensus thinking is this is really old, really good and something we’ve not had before. I guess 78 Guigal La La. Other guesses were equally all over the board. Great to try out an old/aged Spanish wine… one of our group is exploring more of these old Spanish wines, given the rise in cost of everything else around it. Thanks for sharing Steve!

Dark plums, dried herbs, a hint of tobacco. Black cherry, wood. This is still fresh at the front with a lovely complex midpalate and a long finish. Great stuff

Plums and spicy wood. Quite puckering with a faint hint of licorice. Lovely stuff.

Pretty dried cherry, roses and plum on the nose. Dried herbs and lovely definition still. Pretty and charming.

Dark and intense, like syrupy aged Grenache. Intense plum. In great shape given the age. Excellent. Sticky and sweet edges.

Incredible condition, well integrated spices/dill oak, great density, plenty of concentration of complex fruit, held up over two days without decanting. As perfect as any 50 yo bottle I have ever enjoyed..

Lovely. Needs time to open.

Lovely balance