Dry, even temperatures marched the grapes along at a steady clip all year and created a wine with beautifully integrated fruit, acidity, and tannin.ĭense and dark magenta in color, this is a lithe and energetic vintage with lifted aromatics and a purity of fruit that lights up the medium-bodied tannin structure. I like it today, but I suspect it’s capable of keeping for a decade."Įarly to bud and early to ripen, the 2014 vintage was our third drought year in a row. It’s balanced, has fine tannins, and is an outstanding wine. "A small step up in price, the 2014 Reserva (85% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano, and 5% Mazuelo) has a similar elegance and purity, with classic vanilla-laced notes of spice, garrigue, cedar, and both cherry and darker currant-like fruits. Antionio Galloni's Vinous (February 2019), 91 pts In an emphatically fruity style, showing solid closing thrust, strong persistence and gently gripping tannins. Silky and broad on the palate, offering concentrated black raspberry, cherry-vanilla and coconut flavors that become spicier with aeration. An expansive, highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe black and blue fruits, cola, incense and toasty oak, with a sexy floral overtone. "(raised in a 50/50 combination of new and used French and American oak barrels for 18 months) Vivid ruby-red. Enlivening wine with a long and complex aftertaste." Decanter 90 Points
"Sweet, ripe, plummy nose followed by notes of rosemary and thyme. VINIFICATION: Alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel vats at controlled temperature aged in American and French oak barrels -50% each- for 18 months. Well-balanced, well-structured and elegant in mouth displaying some splendid taste of fruit and bouquet too.īurgo Viejo Reserva Wine vinification has occurred blending different grape varieties to produce an aged wine that will surely keep maturity and fullness from the vineyard until the very moment of uncorking. Enjoyable now, the wine will delight for years to come.Burgo Viejo Rioja Reserva is made from 85% Tempranillo, 10% Garnacha & 5% Carignan.īurgo Viejo Rioja Reserva presents with red ruby color black pepper and vanilla flavors and some mature black fruit taste too. Fine-grained tannins offer a velvery texture and complex structure that builds to a long, vibrantly fresh finish with a touch of mocha. After a silky entry, dark fruit flavors emerge with hints of baking spice and black olive. The 2014 Opus One exudes subtle aromes of fragrant florals, fresh garden herbs and forest floor that give way to a concentrated blend of red cherry, blackberry, and black currant. Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Malbec. The tannins are firm and gripping, standing out a bit from the core texture. Rich and creamy, intense and layered, featuring a mix of blackberry, licorice, mocha, cedar and tobacco flavors, with a touch of gravelly earth.
It's quite a serious, savory Opus which will need a few years in the cellar to unwind. On the palate the wine is youthfully taut, with a good line of acidity and fine but assertive tannins. (Antonio Galloni)Ī cool bouquet of fruit compote and wild plum mingles with notes of clove, incense and lilac. In short, the 2014 is a wine of tension, power and grace. The 2014 is not an obvious Opus One, like the 2010, 2012 or 2013, but over time, I will not be surprised if it challenges or even surpasses some of those vintages. A sleeper wine for the year, the 2014 is shaping up to be a gorgeous wine that will handsomely repay several decades of cellaring. The tannins are firm but also impeccably balanced. Savory, tightly wound and intensely aromatic, the 2014 is going to need time to unwind, but it looks like it will develop along the more classic vintages here. The 2014 Opus One has turned out to be a gorgeous wine. Exquisite tension and finesse with an almost Burgundian texture, yet it's Napa in its soul with ripe fruit, stones, spices and Chinese tea leaf flavors. Mesmerizing aromas of flowers, bark, currants and blackberries.
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