89
points
Atalaya 2007 Red (Almansa)
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$16
Black as night, with chunky, sweet, candied aromas as well as notes of bacon, shoe polish and cough medicine. This is a classic modern-styled wine with intense roasted berry, herb and exotic spice flavors. Licorine, prune, coffee and oak emerge on the broad finish. Very ripe yet it does a good job of straddling the line between big and overripe.
— M.S.
(8/1/2010)
88
points
Atalaya 2008 Red (Almansa)
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$16
Potent, dark and concentrated, with aromas of fresh blacktop, bacon and blackberry. The palate is layered and pretty deep, with dark flavors of blackberry, bitter chocolate and burnt oak. Intense and just complex enough. Good wine made from Monastrell, Garnacha and other grapes.
— M.S.
(11/1/2010)