The end of the summer season is here, let’s celebrate

So… It's been a rough rough season, and after working all those hours a week, it's time to treat myself.

I am from Spain, and this is one of those wines I hadn't still tried since I've worked way more in France than Spain, and it means that now that I'm here again, I gotta catch up with all those classics I haven't still tried.

American oak is everywhere here, coconut, vanilla and chocolate is the first thing you get, it almost feels like a Bounty bar. Then there's wet tobacco, cherries, figs, rippen strawberries. It's extra fragrant, there's a sprinkle of cinnamon covering it all. Acidity is there but not overwhelming, tannins are delicate, powdery, almost ethereal, but they're there. Nose is as Rioja as it gets, and mouth is superb, fluid yet powerful thanks to all those polyphenols going here and there, making you think the wine is way denser than it is; somehow it's the aroma carrying it all, making it gigantic, extremely expressive, rotund. Quite a wine.