Steve Mitchell

9.0

Nice Grenache blend! — 5 years ago

LeMel Humes

9.0

Very smooth and good with spicy and red meat — 7 years ago

with Suzanne

Chris England

9.5

Fab 05 top Rioja @ £70-100 in a great year & a fav of mine - will keep improving but great now 😉 Awesome 2020-30 👍

📍 Marques de Murrieta Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial 2005

🏵 95 points w/ 96-98 potential

🍇 89% Tempranillo & 11% Mazuelo

🍷 Deep ruby

👃 Soft oak through dark spiced berries, currants & cherry with creamy vanilla, light smoked tobacco, leather, mocha, coconut, mint & balsamic into choc cherry gateaux w/ a bit of date coming through

👄 Med+ body of deluxe silky smooth creamy stewed rich dark cherry driven fruits all perfectly balanced w/ thick cocoa cream, vanilla & balsamic touch

🎯 Long seductive oak, cocoa, balsamic & dark fruit cherry boom linger — 7 years ago

Jeff Topping

9.1

New years wine. From Calvin at Archmill. Fantastic — 9 years ago

Lindsey M

9.7

Fruity, but not sweet. Smooth and buttery. Low acid. — 10 years ago

Phong

9.5

Light and smooth. Great with snack foods. — 10 years ago

Andrew Kenyon

9.0

Very rich and fruity, cherry and raspberry. — 11 years ago

Noah Smith

9.1

Best Rioja I've ever had. '05. — 12 years ago

Gary Moore

9.6

Mummmm-Debi — 12 years ago

Mario JT Benedetti

9.9

Muy buen vino, toque madera, balanceado, sabor largo — 13 years ago

David Shaw

9.1

Not very sweet at all, tastes of cocoa powder, light cherry red wine (Sangiovese?) and almost no tannin. Soft, lower alcohol than a red table wine, possibly. Paired well here with cocoa-dusted pumpkin cheesecake. — 6 years ago

Janet Alvarez

9.1

Smooth and full bodied. Delicious, will buy again. — 7 years ago

Joelene Hasse

9.0

Smokey with oak notes — 8 years ago

Evelyn Fleisher

9.0

Good, had at Hoxley and Porter — 8 years ago

David Jacobs

9.1

Outstanding. Refined, balanced and ready to drink. 2003 in 12/16. — 9 years ago

Katherine Jones

10

Sweet and bubbly...so delicious! — 10 years ago

Michelle Bodden-Moxam

8.9

Light, crisp — 11 years ago

Cassie Williams

9.3

Beautiful full body — 12 years ago

Andy Juang

8.9

Pinot noir. Single vineyard, spicy. — 12 years ago

Conor White

9.6

Excellente — 13 years ago

hidehiko

8.9

若干濃いめ。
でも呑みやすく華やかです。 — 6 years ago

Sipping Fine Wine

8.9

Family-owned and operated since 1985. Grapes sourced from several Napa Valley Carneros vineyards, aromas of ripe fruits & sweet spice with smoke notes. On the palate complex fruit, apple, pear & peach with cinnamon and vanilla spices giving way to toasty oak. Lots of French oak aging, perhaps too much. Big buttery oak finish ending a bit bold, about on par with the 2014 vintage (last reserve I tried). For $10+ less, their Alexander Valley Chard from a cooler climate showed more finesse, one of my Fav’s. — 7 years ago

Brent Clayton

9.2

Lovely nose of dried fruit and nuts, soft and elegant on the plate, with a hint of dryness on the finish. Layered on the palate and lingers in the mouth. -En Rama NYC popup — 8 years ago

Rob Brobst III

9.0

Nice stuff nothing noteworthy — 9 years ago

Joy Dyer

9.2

Joy had this 9 years ago

Max Vodianytskyi

9.0

Nice one. Love it! — 10 years ago

Marc Berry

10

Had this 6 years ago...time for a second bottle. — 11 years ago

Diego Sanchez Codez

9.1

Buff muy muy bueno!!! — 12 years ago

Chi Gao

9.5

2001 Rioja 这瓶酒是误开的，当天没有时间喝，就把瓶塞盖回去。 两天后喝，它充满香草，咖啡，李子，樱桃，皮革，麝香，惊讶它几乎像黑皮诺，只是颜色略微深一些。口感圆润，花果，橡木，单宁酸度都已经融合一起，有八角，黑胡椒，大吉岭红茶的底蕴。不愧为西班牙的骄傲。以性价比来说真的是值得。 喝它的时候我想到了香港的“腐乳通菜”（空心菜），和台湾的牛肉面。 — 12 years ago

Ellen Lawrence

10

Really enjoyed — 14 years ago