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+--- Thread: 1996 La Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza Rioja Reserva (/thread-10484.html)
- dananne - 07-12-2004
Old-style Rioja, well aged, with tart strawberry fruit and vanilla oak. A few dusty tannins hold the thing together in the finish, which brought on some cinnamon. A nice wine from our Mexico trip, consumed in the worst possible stemware -- old, bulbous, hand-made (hand blown?) glasses. Not decanted. I'd like to try this some time after decanting and in the right stemware, as I'm pretty sure there was more going on. About $25 USD. Better than the '95 I posted on some time back.