• 1996 Condado de Haza Ribera del Duero - Spain, Castilla y León, Ribera del Duero (4/20/2005)
  This bottle was double-decanted 2 hours before tasting, and some seepage was noted at the top of the cork. It must been an off bottle because the descriptors that flowed around the room included: wet dog, underbrush, sewer overflow, sulfur, burnt popcorn, dirty fireplace, and domesticated gerbil fur. Not good. (70 pts.)

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It must been an off bottle because the descriptors that flowed around the room included: wet dog, underbrush, sewer overflow, sulfur, burnt popcorn, dirty fireplace, and domesticated gerbil fur. Not good. (70 pts.)

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If the descriptors had included "used Diaper Genie" I would have guessed the descriptors came from Rose of davidandrose. But they do sound like her kind of descriptors.

Mike

1996 Condado de Haza Ribera del Duero - Spain, Castilla y León, Ribera del Duero (6/11/2008)
WIMLNR

Tasted June 11, 2008 at an offline.

Opened and served immediately. Purple color in the glass, slightly cloudy looking throughout. Nose of shellfish, smoke, minerals and a bit of dried herbs. Flavors of red berries and maybe a bit of red cherry. Tart acidity, fully resolved tannins, light to medium body. Comes across as a bit thin on the palate. If I was going to rate this I'd say it's in the lower 80's at best on the WIML scale but I suspect this wine's provenance or it's simply towards the bottom of the other side of the hill therefore no rating.