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Bright purple. Dark berry liqueur, incense, vanilla and sexy oak spices on the intensely perfumed nose. Lush, sweet and expansive, offering sappy black and blue fruit compote flavors along with suggestions of mocha and spicecake. Really stains the palate, finishing with excellent clarity and thrust and dusty tannins that make a late appearance. This wine was aged for 34 months in new American and French oak.
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
Josh Raynolds
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The 2010 NIC is produced with Tempranillo from three small plots planted in 1920, which fermented and aged for 30 months in 500-liter French oak barrels, including malolactic. It’s initially muted, completely shy, austere, and perhaps a little reduced, with notes of matchbox and a lactic touch, with the reductive notes taking the shape of some garlicky aromas. After a long time it opens up with the fruit black rather than red, and there are balsamic aromas of peat and graphite. The palate is full-bodied, with sophisticated tannins, good acidity and balance, slightly rustic perhaps, but with a clear character from Ribera del Duero. It feels quite marked by the oak even if the barrels used were 500 liters. It needs time. Drink 2015-2020. Importer: Frontier Wine Imports, Dover, New Jersey; tel. (973) 328-4500