Riccardo L.

9.0

Mmmmmmmmmm. Never disappoints. — 18 days ago

Kaela Myers

9.0

Pretty perfect — 4 months ago

Walter Fahr

9.1

Nicely balanced Rioja.with deep ruby color and medium body. Paired with pork sausage and turkey gumbo, it was a perfect match, especially with the sausage. Drank in January 2025 At 6 years old it had aged well! — 5 months ago

Heather Rostker

9.1

And the final for the evening. An excellent crianza. — 7 months ago

with Dave

Kristen Grimes

9.5

Black wild berries and a little earthy funk on the nose, light on the palate with some richness of fruits (mulberry, black plum) and gravelly minerals with some very soft tannins. — a month ago

Lorne Padman

10

Smooth, earthy / volcanic, deep. Great after taste. Not too fruity — 4 months ago

Juan Pablo Perez

9.0

Nariz: arandano, mora, eucalipto, ciruela, cassis y algo de pimiento verde

Boca: Tanino M, Acidez M, Alcohol M/M+

Bueno evolucion de la ultima vez. Tambien bueno por precio. — 5 months ago

Scott Kahn

9.0

Black fruit, dried raspberries volcanic minerality, and oak toast. An enjoyable wine from Etna — 3 months ago

with Eric

Tom Casagrande

9.0

Another big boi from this producer. Obviously uses at least a significant proportion of partially dried grapes. Fairly saturated color. Nose is rather subdued, reluctantly giving up scents of leather, underbrush, crushed rock, and dark cherry underneath all of that non-fruit stuff. In the mouth, it’s big, with initial slightly bitter, extracted notes. Tannic. Dissimilar from straight Valpos in its size and austerity. Dissimilar from Ripasso-style Valpos in that the fruit is not especially ripe or sweetish. It will go well with our stuffed shells in red sauce, but is a little challenging on its own. It occurs to me that this might fit in well in a tasting of 2017s from the left bank in Bordeaux. In other words, very atypical for a Valpo. Still, it’s pretty good, as long as you don’t harbor any expectations of typicity.

UPDATE: two nights later (using a vacuum closure), this has actually improved. Kind of amazing for a Valpo of this age. The fruit has moved closer to front-and-center, and it seem a bit more Calpo-like, though it’s still pretty large-framed. Upping score from 8.8 to 9.0. — 5 months ago

Roxie V

10

Perfect chilled red from Sardinia at bonafini — 6 months ago