The solid structure is chiseled from granite, but carries elegant, even delicate flavors of lilac, strawberry, cinnamon and bitter chocolate. The tannins grip, then dissolve, while the acidity keeps this red lively and fresh. Drink now through 2015. Tasted twice, with consistent notes. 50 cases imported.??–TM??Region: Spain / Ribera del Duero Select to Add

Very concentrated blackberry fruit, lots of extraction, but fresh and balanced. Lots of flavour, well extracted.

A rich, deep style of Tempranillo with earth and leather aromas along with a lot of new oak. Violet in color, with matching aromas of plum, berry, tobacco and chocolate. Pretty yet stout in the mouth, with intense berry fruit flavors and all the length one could ask for. Rich and ready to drink, but can age until 2018 with no problem. ——M.S.(10/1/2010)—— 93