Benjamin Romeo, Rioja Vina Andres

Benjamin Romeo, Rioja Vina AndresOpaque purple. Explosive bouquet displays blackberry, mulberry, creme de cassis, cherry vanilla and Asian spices. A zesty cracked pepper quality adds urgency to the deep, sweet dark berry flavors and a kick to the back end. Mixes depth and energy with a deft hand, finishing with exotic notes of floral pastille and spicecake. The spicy quality lingers endlessly, giving this wine an improbably vivacious personality. There are just 200 bottles of this

Here too the nose is composed of an elegant array of airy red cherry

The palate widens as it opens in the glass

soft plums

This vintage is perhaps shapelier and more saturated with rose

Aromas of dark chocolate

white flowers and various classic Chablis elements to be appreciated

this is a powerful wine that needs time to settle down

deep and concentrated

(100% stems)

probably the best vintage produced so far

It is now in the USA and showing in a rather forward fashion for Taylor's

This mature wine remains dark black-red in colour