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90 pts--RP There are 5000 cases of the 2007 Papa Luna, a blend of 70% Garnacha, 25% Syrah and 5% Mazuelo aged five months in French and American oak. The Garnacha was sourced from 70 to 100-year-old bush vines. Purple-colored, it offers up an alluring bouquet including garrigue notes, spice box, lavender, black cherry, and blueberry. This is followed by a velvety-textured wine with layers of savory fruit, a sense of elegance, complex flavors, and a lengthy, pure finish. Drink this hedonistic effort over the next six years. List: $23.99 Kahn's: $19.99 Recession Buster: $16.99
Composed of 65% Garnacha and 35% Cabernet Sauvignon and spent 13 months in French and American oak. Purple with a ruby rim, it offers enticing notes of cedar, pencil lead, mineral, black currant, and black cherry. Layered with a firm underlying structure, this is a ripe, sweetly-fruited, lengthy wine.
Fresh and juicy, with plenty of tannins behind the crushed raspberry and red plum flavors. List $14.99 Kahn's $10.99
Inky purple, the wine has a wonderful perfume of scorched earth, truffle, graphite, black cherry, and blueberry.
This wine nearly has it all -- notes of blueberry, blackberry and black current, with cinnamon, cayenne, paprika, star anise, black pepper. Has a thick, rich mouth feel with kickin' tannins. Yum.
92pts-RP from a 70-year-old Blewitt Springs vineyard planted with old bush vines. Aged 18 months in French oak (30% new), it exhibits a dense ruby/purple color in addition to a sweet bouquet of black raspberries, cherries, currants, and incense. Spicy and rich with supple tannin, this impressively endowed Grenache.
90+ Robert Parker Dark ruby colored, it has an attractive bouquet of cedar, mineral, black cherry, and blueberry. The wine is full-bodied, mouth-filling, ripe and straightforward. However, the structure suggests that it will evolve for 5-7 years andthat may provide additional complexity. The 2004 Isaral is composed of 60% Carinena, 20% Garnacha, and 20% Cabernet Sauvignon aged for 12 months in French and American oak. List: $50
94 RP The 2005 TOCS is composed of 35% Garnacha, 30% Syrah, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 5% Merlot aged for 16 months in 80% new French oak. A glass-coating opaque purple, it offers up a perfume of liquid minerality, Asian spices, lavender, black cherry, and blueberry muffin. Rich, plush, and concentrated, it conceals enough ripe tannin to evolve for 5-7 years. Drink this spicy, succulent effort from 2015 to 2025.
93 Robert Parker The 2005 Altos Las Pizarras takes things to a still higher level. A selection of the best lots was put into 100% new French oak to complete malolactic where it remained until recent bottling. Toasty oak, black fruits and espresso roast aromas are followed by a full-bodied wine with supple, sweet cherry and black fruit flavors with no hard edges. Put this beauty in the cellar for 3-5 years and drink it over the following 15. List $53
There is a rush of dark fruit with an underlying bright spice, including hints of rosemary, thyme and just a trace of sage. As the wine opens on the palate there is an intense minerality.
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