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2010 Gran Reserva 904, La Rioja Alta, Rioja, Spain

A frisson of excitement ripples through the office when a La Rioja Alta sample appears, and the beaming smiles from the assembled tasters indeed confirms another absolute banger of a 904. 2010 arrives in an altogether more stoic and refined fashion than last year’s instantly ravishing 2009. I shan’t mince around the euphemisms, there’s oak, lots of it and it delivers this cuvée’s trademark array of decadent aromas magnificently. Come-hither notes of desiccated coconut, toasted walnuts and cheesecake base interplay with a core of black forest fruit so precise and detailed in profile it’s like t

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