When it's good it's great, but not a consistent wine. When it's good it's full bodied and bursting with fruit and mocha and drinks like a 50 dollar bottle. When it's off it drinks like mediocre grape juice. Not sure how it can have such big swings, but latest vintage is back on track so my rating is back up. — 11 years ago
75% Tempranillo, 25% Cab. GREAT balance - drinks very well right now, — 12 years ago
Very light, easy to drink — 12 years ago
Excellent daily drinker — 11 years ago
Plum strawberries with strawberry liqueur and underripe blueberries nose. Oaky-tasting, smoky, black plum palate with cedar and hickory. This thing swings wood like Babe Ruth, yet remains nude and almost oak less as an actual babe. — 11 years ago
Rye toast, cranberry laden gravy, and morel nose with cinnamon and peppercorns in prune smoke. There is dark chocolate in this miasma, too. Blood-thick, with enough residual oak to build your own "Cruz" ship. A virtual reliquary, this dark chunky beast swings like a bat across your front teeth, and doesn't forget the back! Big Spanish monster with hard clay, bonfire, plum reduction, and a brassy finish that hovers around in the shadows for a minute finishing with cassis and a little bakers chocolate for good measure. A steal at 13$! — 11 years ago
Deep garnet. Spicy fruit aromas. Balanced mouth filling flavour. This 2011 started fruity and as the evening went on pepper tones moved to the forefront. Swings above its price tag. — 11 years ago
Lovely, buttery wine we had camping at Easter — 12 years ago
Ron Westlund
Welcome home! This ain't shy. Swings the big brass balls with a feather light touch — 11 years ago