1995 Condado de Haza Ribera del Duero Crianza

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  9/17/2023 - Tony Molester Likes this wine:

  From bottle.
  Ullage below shoulder.
  Lots of signs of seepage.
  Single piece Cork very soft and crumbly.
  Sieving not necessary.
  Tasted over 4 hours
  
  Transparent ruby with very slight bricking.
  
  Nose of leather and earth, clove. Really attractive.
  
  Palate is very balanced and elegant, finish is long, acidity is perfect.
  Intensity is medium.
  Still some fruit, perfectly integrated and mature. A real treat and a surprise after dumping out the last bottle of this.
  
  Drink up, on a very slow descent.
  13.5%abv

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  5/12/2022 - forceberry wrote: 90 Points

  100% Tempranillo. Aged for 18 months in American oak barrels. 13% alcohol. Tasted half-blind from a magnum.
  
  Somewhat translucent brick-red color with an evolved maroon hue. The nose feels ripe, sweet-toned and somewhat rustic with aromas of dusty sun-baked earth, some savory wood tones, a little bit of old saddle leather, light pruney tones, a hint of ripe blackcurrant and a touch of farmhouse funk. The wine feels dry, evolved and somewhat meaty on the palate with a moderately full body and quite tertiary flavors of earth and pruney dark fruits, some toasty oak tones, a little bit of mocha, light leathery tones, a sweeter hint of caramel and a touch of wizened blackcurrant. The overall feel is still enjoyably structured, thanks to the moderately high acidity and quite firm and somewhat grippy medium-plus tannins. The finish is evolved, savory and moderately grippy with layered flavors of old saddle leather and sweeter toasty oak notes of mocha and caramel, some ferrous notes of blood, a little bit of wizened dark fruits, light pruney tones and a hint of sun-baked earth.
  
  A nice, evolved and enjoyably savory Ribera del Duero that is in a very nice shape right now - unlike the 1996 vintage I tasted 1½ years ago, which was already going downhill. This is just developed and quite tertiary, but not showing any signs of going downhill. The overall style is perhaps a bit too oak-heavy for my taste, but otherwise this wine is quite unlike the RdD wines of today: this ain't heavily extracted, sweetly-fruited and excessively alcoholic. No, even with its mature pruney notes the fruit flavors hasn't turned too sweet in taste and the structure feels well-proportioned with the quite - but not too - full body. A thoroughly enjoyable and well-made effort that is drinking mighty well right now. Recommended.

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  8/25/2021 - sjw_11 wrote: 94 Points

  Recent auction purchase. The level was just towards the bottom of the neck and the cork came out in pieces but otherwise this looked well cared for. The color is still deep ruby with some brown hints. And then the nose; the nose is frankly glorious. Fading plum, old varnish, grandmas liquor cabinet. It’s trending tertiary but actually the purity of fruit remains quite good, with hints of darker cherry liqueur poking out. In the mouth the fruit is a little dried out but you can still appreciate the original Tempranillo character plus pleasant tertiary development which leaves a mellow, and very drinkable red wine. For the age and price, it’s remarkable. This wine represents exactly what cellaring wines for pleasure not fiscal returns is about.

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  10/28/2019 - europat55 wrote: 93 Points

  Another amazon bottle!

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  3/8/2019 - srh Likes this wine:

  Friday Tasting Group; Unthemed (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): N: Spice atop berries with notes of leather? Tough to parse; Intensity lurking?
  
  P: LM, poss Med, body; NICE, almost swtish frt met by some astringent pucker which pretty much resolves by the LONG, balanced, PERHAPS very, VERY slightly bitterish finish with a tangy/swtness to the FEW remaining dusty tannins. For now & the next 4 yrs or so? 13% ABV; My EXC. 90 pts WS and 16/20 ea Vinum & El Mundo Vino.

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