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Variety: Tempranillo
Region: Rioja
Country: Spain
Year: 2010
Price: $8.95 (Vintage Cellar)
Shop Review:
Ripe cherry and blackcurrant on the nose and in the mouth. Pliant and seamless in texture, with good heft and back-end energy. Finishes smooth and sweet, with fine-grained tannins providing shape and grip. Still on the young side but this wine drinks very well with an hour or so of decanting; it’s an excellent value for Rioja.
My Review:
Recently I have been smelling the same things over and over, and tasting what I am about to just start calling "wine" flavors. Nothing really standing out among the rest. But when I run across a wine, like the Montebuena, with very unique aroma and flavor profiles, it gets me interested in wine tasting again. This was a 100% tempranillo. I have seemed to struggle with this varietal, but this one was interesting enough to draw me back. On the nose, this wine offers a very dark black cherry flavor profile, but at the same time leaving you with a crisp feeling. But on the tongue this wine offers a much different story. This wine is heavy in the chocolate flavors. It felt like drinking a dark chocolate milk made with chocolate powder. It leaves your tongue feeling creamy yet like you still have chocolate powder in your mouth. Overall a very interesting and well crafted wine. (I love tasting new wines!)
Ripe cherry and blackcurrant on the nose and in the mouth. Pliant and seamless in texture, with good heft and back-end energy. Finishes smooth and sweet, with fine-grained tannins providing shape and grip. Still on the young side but this wine drinks very well with an hour or so of decanting; it’s an excellent value for Rioja.
My Review:
Recently I have been smelling the same things over and over, and tasting what I am about to just start calling "wine" flavors. Nothing really standing out among the rest. But when I run across a wine, like the Montebuena, with very unique aroma and flavor profiles, it gets me interested in wine tasting again. This was a 100% tempranillo. I have seemed to struggle with this varietal, but this one was interesting enough to draw me back. On the nose, this wine offers a very dark black cherry flavor profile, but at the same time leaving you with a crisp feeling. But on the tongue this wine offers a much different story. This wine is heavy in the chocolate flavors. It felt like drinking a dark chocolate milk made with chocolate powder. It leaves your tongue feeling creamy yet like you still have chocolate powder in your mouth. Overall a very interesting and well crafted wine. (I love tasting new wines!)
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