Wine Reviews

An archive of all wine reviews
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 Although this wine can’t quite match the 2017 “Don Miguel Comenge” for sheer power, it is superior in both purity and regional typicity and...
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 This bodega is doing very interesting work with yeast strains, isolating the best ones from their vineyard sites and then propagating them and inoculating...
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 Only about 3,500 bottles of this are made in an average year from two parcels wine vines averaging 80 or more years of age. ...
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 As the name would suggest, this bottling is the cornerstone of this bodega’s production, and it proves very consistently strong across vintages, no doubt...
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 I tasted this vintage of this wine both at the bodega in Spain and also in my home in late April, 2022, and was...
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 This medium-sized, family-owned bodega (they’ve been growers since 1850) is among the most rapidly rising in the region, and there’s no doubt that its...
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 I’ve not been able to visit this bodega, so I can only render my impressions based on tasting two wines from 2018:  A gutsy...
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 Clearly excellent in all respects, even at this young age and right from when the cork is first pulled, this will nevertheless improve for...
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 I know this wine from all recent vintage releases, and it always seriously over-performs in complexity and seriousness in relation to its selling price. ...
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 I seized an opportunity to taste this more developed version of the 2018 "Tierra Alta ‘Valduero 2 Maderas” (which is how the wine is...
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 This is one of the largest and most venerable bodegas in the appellation, and though sheer size is often inversely correlated with quality, I...
Michael Franz
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April 26, 2022
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 Ferratus (or, more fully, Bodegas Cuevas Jimenez Ferratus) is a medium-sized producer of about 10,000 cases per year, well equipped and energetically run, with...