Rioja, Priorat and Ribera del Duero advice

[Daniel_Posner]

@Victor de la Serna

When they include “wildly extractive and bitter and very unpleasant” for Alonso del Yerro’s wines, they are also strikingly eye-opening. They may force me to start revising everything I thought I knew about wine.

It’s about time, Victor!

[Victor_de_la_Serna]

I’m just waiting for Derenoncourt to give me the green light.

[Matt_Snow]

@Josh Beck

Re: the Alonso del Yerro. Hearing after the fact that the wines were have a famous consultant’s name attached to them doesn’t change my opinion of them. The bottles I’ve had have been wildly extractive and bitter and very unpleasant.

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Aren’t opinions grand? Other peoples’ vary!

Another differing opinion here. I’ve very much liked the 2004 regular cuvee from del Yerro. Pretty, dark cherry fruited, medium-bodied, a little more of an acid backbone than many reds, but no bitterness. Not a classic Ribera, but very enjoyable in its own right.

[Josh_Beck]

I think I have another bottle or two of the 04 Alonso regular cuvee floating around, I will dig one out and try it again to get a new look at it.