Once again a wine that makes the hair in your nostrils tremble. Salt liquorice, barrel tar - and turpentine to you bold ones - in the undertones of the powerful grape. So, it's not the easiest piece of cake. Quite a thought-bending wine.
Tempranillo for sure, and very likely also garnacha and mazuelo, because then a bold and surprising combination is born - as in this wine. The bodega's centenario is well worth celebrating with some risk-taking, because there is a tuff reward to those of us with a will to stay even a small fraction of that time by the brim of the glass.
The brownish and mature wine lingers on the sides of the glass. There's roundness in the start, shaking tannines in the middle, and a chatarsis in the finish to be found by an explorer.
Just the kind of baRockian cornucopia I'm satisfied with. One more notch is added to my annals with a gift that made a difference.
Linger and think when you sip - and sip again.