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The June 2023 Auction: Part 1
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Estimate: $100
Very lightly scuffed, lightly torn, handwritten notation on label.
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94JG
"The 2006 Rioja Viña Real Gran Reserva from CVNE is a really superb bottle in the making, offering up a deep and complex bouquet of cassis, dark berries, espresso, a bit of roasted game, dark soil tones, incipient notes of cigar smoke and a nice blend of coconutty American wood and cedary French wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and very elegant, with superb soil signature, a lovely core of fruit, excellent focus and balance and a very long, moderately tannic and tangy finish. This wine came in at 13.5 percent alcohol, but shows no signs of either heat on the palate or overripeness on the nose, but is wonderfully pure and impressive defined by its soil drive on the backend. A superb Viña Real in the making, I would opt for giving this wine another four to five years in the cellar to really start to develop its secondary layers of complexity. It is very approachable and tasty today, but it is still clearly climbing in quality!"
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"The 2006 Rioja Viña Real Gran Reserva from CVNE is a really superb bottle in the making, offering up a deep and complex bouquet of cassis, dark berries, espresso, a bit of roasted game, dark soil tones, incipient notes of cigar smoke and a nice blend of coconutty American wood and cedary French wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and very elegant, with superb soil signature, a lovely core of fruit, excellent focus and balance and a very long, moderately tannic and tangy finish. This wine came in at 13.5 percent alcohol, but shows no signs of either heat on the palate or overripeness on the nose, but is wonderfully pure and impressive defined by its soil drive on the backend. A superb Viña Real in the making, I would opt for giving this wine another four to five years in the cellar to really start to develop its secondary layers of complexity. It is very approachable and tasty today, but it is still clearly climbing in quality!"
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Spain has the largest area under vine of any country and a deep tradition of oak-aged reds. Tempranillo-based wines from Rioja and Ribera del Duero, alongside Priorat's Garnacha and Carinena, anchor its fine-wine reputation.
Spain's noble red grape, producing structured, savory wines of red fruit and leather that respond beautifully to oak aging in Rioja and Ribera del Duero.