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[TN] '96 Remelluri Rioja

Today our weather returned to a comfortable seasonal temperature. To celebrate, we cooked a rack of lamb and I brought up a red wine from the cellar:

1996 Remelluri Rioja nose: pencil lead, old wood, dusty cherries, leather palate: high acidity, medium body, decent length

None of the Brettiness that people have reported with this producer. Quite a nice example of Tempranillo and a good match for the lamb. Bricking at the edges shows the age of this wine and, while I would say that it's fully mature, I wouldn't yet call it past its prime. Then again, I'm not too focused on fruit ;-)

Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton
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Mark, this is the Gran Reserva? Obviously not a Crianza from the notes on old wood and for that matter that it has lived so long.

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Joseph Coulter

Neither Reserva nor Gran Reserva AFAICT. Dunno if they use the Crianza designation in La Rioja Alavesa, but that's probably what this was. Here's the label:

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Mark Lipton

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Mark Lipton

Of course as soon as I sent the inquiry I noted in my Johnson Pocket Wine Book that some producers in Rioja are skipping the traditional labeling. So much for knowing your stuff. This is probably akin to the Italian super tuscan wish to be freed from constraints, but it leaves the consumer less knowledgeable in the long run.

Anyway always good to hear from you and get a note on Spanish wines as well as they are about the only euro denominated wines that leave my pocketbook semi intact these days.

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Joseph Coulter

Well, they do make a Reserva, so they haven't totally abandoned the classifications.

Dunno what your price point is, but these days I do most of my bottom feeding from the Loire (Muscadet, Anjou, Touraine) and the Beaujolais (esp. Brun and Vissoux's lower-end bottlings), as my notes probably indicate.

Mark Lipton

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