Winery - El Nido
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
If all you’re after is size, then sign on the dotted line. This blend is a monster that weighs in at 15.5%, so be ready for intensely sweet flavors of grape essence and licorice. To this judge, the wine has a lot of gumption but isn’t what I’d want to drink glass after glass, day after day. It’s lumbering, heavy but oh so sweet and dessert-like.
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El Nido Red Blend - 2003
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Cabernet Sauvignon and Monastrell made in a ripe, high-alcohol style results in monster aromas of shoe polish and black licorice. The palate is a wave of chocolate and candied black fruits that crashes into a heavy, ultraripe finish of prune and pepper. A lunker wine with a sweet smile and a big handshake.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Black fruits, brightness and a friendly sweetness are the aromatic greeting. The palate is intense and thick, with creamy, medicinal berry and molten plum flavors. A little aggressive and minty, but likable and ready to roll. 70% Monastrell with 30% Cabernet Sauvignon.
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El Nido Red Blend - 2007
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Oddly, this is preferable to El Nido’s $140 Cab-heavy fruit bomb. Maybe that’s because Monastrell is the go-to grape in Jumilla, and this is 70% Monastrell and only 30% Cab compared to the opposite with El Nido. All that said, this wine is ripe, approachable and dark, with excellent balance and a fudgy, warm finish of fruitcake and blackberry. Drink now through 2013.
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El Nido Red Blend - 2006
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This Cabernet-Monastrell blend tips the scales at 15.5% and asks you straight out: how big do you like your red wines? It is smoky, sultry and massive, with spicy boysenberry aromas, a deep, syrupy palate and plodding flavors of molasses, roasted berry, cedar plank and herbs. Bullish but drinkble now and over the next few years; probably not one for the cellar.
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El Nido Red Blend - 2007
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
There’s no denying the wine’s power and intensity. It’s concentrated like a cement block, with richness, plummy aromas, sweetness and char. But it’s also candied and ultrarich in the mouth, with syrupy flavors of berry extract, cola and chocolate. A heavy wine that shows every ounce of its 15.5% alcohol. Ultimately it’s more sweet and powerful than it is precise. Drink now through 2013.
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