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  • 2005 Bodegas El Nido Jumilla Clio - Spain, Murcia, Jumilla (5/15/2008)
    Huge oak nose with cedar, blueberry and vanilla. More lush blueberry with hints of smoke and vanilla. Creamy texture. While it may age, it is quite delicious to drink now. Not my style anymore but it was well made for its kind. Definite NOT for the terroirist. (94 pts.)

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Originally posted by steve8:
Pretty soon someone like Torb is going to rip me for stereo-typing Australian shiraz.

To me the Clio is a big, extracted and overly-sweet wine. It seems manipulated and it strikes me as a wine that is made by an Aussie/Barossa winemaker who was parachuted into Spain to make wine some local grapes.

Brashley, rough tannins??? Confused For a blueberry milkshake maybe. You sir are a tannin wimp. Razz

The consulting winemaker at El Nido is Chris Ringland, so maybe its his style you are associating the Clio with an Aussie shiraz, but nothing elso says shiraz about it.


Fair enough, but I find the style overwhelms the character of the varietals or the place the grapes were grown.

That's my last comment about this wine here. Smile
 
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when i tried this at the grand tour in vegas i thought it way too young to evaluate with any degree of certainty, for it tasted kind of like a barrel sample to me.
 
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Opened (2) bottles of the Clio last evening (one was not enough).
Singing. Absolutely singing.
 
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Opened (2) bottles of the Clio last evening (one was not enough).
Singing. Absolutely singing.


What vintage?
 
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Opened (2) bottles of the Clio last evening (one was not enough).
Singing. Absolutely singing.

What vintage?

2005.
I'm quite surprised how well they're drinking at this stage. I was at a friends last evening, and he opened them as he has no '04s, which is all I've been drinking at this time. I've not opened any of my '05s but may rethink.
 
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We had a bottle of this 2 weeks ago in Spain. It's outstanding. The Spanish Monastrells I've had, don't seem to have much hard tannin in them, so they seem fine for current drinking to me. There's enough backbone and acidity to age, but I'm not sure they'll actually improve.


Just one more sip.
 
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There's enough backbone and acidity to age, but I'm not sure they'll actually improve.

W+A and I were just discussing this very thing earlier today. That is becoming the general consensus, I think.
Which is fine, really. They're so enjoyable now.
 
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