2004 Marqués de Riscal Rioja Reserva

Community Tasting Notes (162) Avg Score: 87.5 points

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  4/28/2024 - Harley1199 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Twenty Years On Wines, Some Luxury at Home; 4/19/2024-5/9/2024 (Alicante y Madrid - España): Gracefully aged in my parents cellar during ten years plus. Popped and poured? Well, cork splited in two pieces, last one totally pulverised so conveniently filtered and decanted. Beautiful, bright crimson colour with orange edges. What a nose. All what Rioja is about including flesh, iron ore, strawberries, leather, cinnamon, clove, biscuits or caramel even. Unbelievable complexity. Once again, coconut and dill missed in action. Similar echoes on the palate. Smooth texture, excellent acidity, very good length and a delicious aftertaste, very well defined. Supeb and full expressive for this particular vintage. Excellent. Deep. Recommended as postprandial wine even. According with this current score, may I insist that Rioja wine is not for everyone? I refer to the evidence ... Sorry. Reading latest news from Financial Times about the collapse of prices in Bordeaux I understand why.
  
  Agraciadamente envejecido en el sótano de mis padres durante más de diez años. ¿Descorchado y escanciado? Bueno, el corcho estaba dividido en dos piezas, el último completamente pulverizado así que convenientemente filtrado y decantado. Hermoso, brillante color carmesí con bordes anaranjados. Qué nariz. Todo lo que tiene que ver con Rioja: con carne, hierro, fresas, cuero, canela, clavo, galletas o caramelo. Una complejidad increíble. De nuevo, el coco y el eneldo cayeron en combate. Ecos similares en el paladar. Textura suave, excelente acidez, muy buena longitud y un delicioso regusto, muy bien definido. Súper y expresividad completa para esta añada en particular. Excelente. Profundo. Recomendable incluso como vino de sobremesa. De conformidad con la puntuación actual, ¿Puedo insistir en que el vino de Rioja no es para todo el mundo? A las pruebas me remito ... Lo siento. Leyendo las últimas noticias del Financial Times sobre el colapso de los precios en Burdeos entiendo el por qué.

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  9/14/2023 - JoseBrewin wrote:

  After 20 years it was still very hoods. Prunes and deep flavors. Very smooth

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  12/31/2021 - Magnus Poulsen Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Magnum format, much better than the 2000 that I opened months prior. Reduced dark red and black fruits, very slightly leathery.

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  12/11/2020 - derekjohn Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Slightly senile damask purple red. Perfumed, some treacly sweetness. Tannins soften significantly in air; suitcase leather, dry rose petals, a complex wine. Great length with a heavy floral back scent.

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  11/19/2020 - jondrinkswine Likes this wine: 91 Points

  At $40 this is great QPR. Contrary to some of the other reviewers, I think this wine really benefits from a decant. I've had two bottles in the last month. The first, I put in a decanter to remove sediment and drank over the course of an hour. The last drop was the best... This time, I decanted for 90 minutes before drinking over 2-3 hours and the experience was much better.
  
  Mature dark fruit flavors are subdued and fading, lots of spice, and a bit of tertiary flavor. Plenty of velvety tannin. Long dry, spicy finish.
  
  With the fruit fading, I would drink in the next couple years or else wait 10+ years for tertiary flavors to become abundant.

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