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My Personal Recommendation For You
Erudito Reserva Especial
2008
Rioja;
Spain
Bttl $31.99 Cs Bttl $28.99
97pts Decanter and Intl Wine Awards 2013 International
Trophy
 Our biggest
selling Spanish red wine is the Erudito Rioja Reserva
. This wine is a special bottling that has been put together
for us by Bodegas Olarra from selected barrels of their
 wine that scored 92pts
by Parker
, and has been
loved and repurchased by our customers all last year. Due to the success
of the wine, we asked them to kick it up notch; lower yields, use only the very
finest older vines, no filtration, and even better oak treatment. The result is
a special bottling of Erudito that we have called the
2008 Erudito Rioja Especial, and it has just arrived in the country. We opened bottles at our
end
-of-year holiday party, and tasted the wine against some of the world's finest; 2006 Palmer, 2007 Staglin, 2006
Guigal La Mouline
, and the
wine held its ground with the best there is. The talk of the night was the
Especial at the price, a no brainer buy, a can
't miss!
When it rains, it pours! We have just been
informed that the world's leading wine publication
Decanter Magazine has
just given the wine a huge
97pts,and the wine won the coveted
"International Trophy" for 2013. This is a huge honor for a wine
, and wow, what a score! This is the top
award a wine can win at the Decanter World Wine Awards of 2013.
DecanterMagazine looks at thousands, upon thousands of wine every year, and only 30 wines win an
International Trophy.
This is the best of the best!
The wine is a text book top quality
, modern style Rioja, with excellent balance of power and finesse, and perfect oak aging. The wine
spent 18 months in American oak and spends a further 18 months in the bottle
, prior to release. The results
are spectacular. At a case price of $28.99, this is a must buy, perfect for the
winter months ahead
, or for
laying down over the next five years.
Superb
richness and concentration for Rioja with a sweet, oaky nose of minty, lifted
cherries. Supple palate of coconut, cigar, tomato leaf and aged leather around
a dense core of cherries and strawberries with superb freshness. Amazing.
Although all four typical red varieties are in this blend (Tempranillo,
Garnacha, Mazuelo/Carignan and Graciano), Tempranillo dominates, marking the
whole wine an archetypal Rioja Alta: red berry fruit, soft tannins, balancing
acidity and intense vanilla notes from American oak.
This hand-picked wine is ready
to ship.
To see other personal wine recommendations we are offering customers CLICK HERE Each wine has
been carefully selected to recommend. You might want to mix and match. Need
help? Call
1 800 434 9463 (WINE) and ask
for your Wine Advisor, Ty.
My job is to learn your palate. Please tell me what you are looking for,
i.e., specific grapes, countries, and/or price points. We
guarantee all
wines we recommend, you never get stuck with wine you do not enjoy. Simply let
us know if you are not happy and we will pick up the wine at our cost and put
you into something else. I will also always match a legitimate price. We stand
behind our customers 100%.
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