Benjamin Romeo, Rioja Vina Andres other_regions_italy

Benjamin Romeo, Rioja Vina Andres other_regions_italyOpaque purple. Explosive bouquet displays blackberry, mulberry, creme de cassis, cherry vanilla and Asian spices. A zesty cracked pepper quality adds urgency to the deep, sweet dark berry flavors and a kick to the back end. Mixes depth and energy with a deft hand, finishing with exotic notes of floral pastille and spicecake. The spicy quality lingers endlessly, giving this wine an improbably vivacious personality. There are just 200 bottles of this

This is not an elegant Corton-Charlemagne but it is seriously impressive nonetheless

tobacco and woodsy aromas and flavors

relatively powerful flavors that are balanced and harmonious

southeast-facing vineyard planted in 1973 in Laguardia at 500 meters altitude

seductively textured and palate staining flavors that possess good volume and a taut muscularity on the long and powerful finish

this is very much built for the long-term and is going to need at least a decade of patience and should amply repay 20 or perhaps even more

this is a brilliant Pomerol from Nicolas de Bailliencourt and it will age with supreme class

As readers will remember

Super-fragrant with a floral lift from the Viognier component

this is the ace in Massolino's rotation

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saline and balanced finish where the citrus character telegraphed by the nose reappears on the explosive finale