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IWC:
By Josh Raynolds
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Issue #134, September/October 2007)
(Bodega Numanthia-Termes Numanthia Toro) ($62) Deep ruby. A deep, youthfully brooding bouquet offers dark cherry, blackcurrant, incense and suave oak spices. Spicy cherry and dark berry flavors show an exotic anise quality and slow-building sweetness. This gently tannic, chewy, extremely persistent wine finishes with echoes of oak spice and floral pastille, not to mention excellent vivacity. 93 points |
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WA: The 2005 Numanthia was aged for 19 months in new French oak. Opaque purple, it has a superb perfume of violets, mineral, wood smoke, blueberry, and blackberry. This leads to a firm, very structured wine with questionable balance. The finish is long but tannic. This is a wine that demands cellaring but purchasing it is a gamble.
Importer: Jorge Ordonez, Fine Estates From Spain; tel. (781) 461-5767 |