Well-spiced, with concentrated ripe apple and pear flavors that feature accents of butterscotch. Offers a juicy and rich-tasting finish.
I also tasted an unbottled sample of the 2016 Rioja Reserva, which should be bottled in a couple of months, before the summer. What I tasted was the final blend, and it represents the year - 2016 was a cooler year, and the wine also goes in that direction...
Lots of mushroom and walnut aromas with plum and leather, too. It's full-bodied, but very soft and creamy-textured with lots of old wood, mushroom and ripe fruit on the finish. Some chocolate and hazelnut. Complex and gorgeous. Drink or hold.