2016 Cosecha Crianza
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Opaque, bright-rimmed ruby. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red and dark berries, violet, licorice, cured tobacco and woodsmoke, and a suave mineral flourish adds vivacity. Sweet, seamless and lively on the palate, offering sappy cassis, cherry-vanilla and floral pastille flavors that become spicier as the wine opens up. Concentrated but graceful as well, showing no excess fat. The very long, focused finish features sneaky tannins and repeating florality.
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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The Crianza is now simply the 2016 Hacienda Monasterio, a powerful wine from a large vintage where the vines delivered a good crop of ripe grapes, even when the grapes were harvested early. They told me they have seen the climate change in their vineyards, and the ripe grapes and the wine now achieve 15% alcohol and it's very difficult to lower it. This is a generous and ripe wine with a juicy texture, ripe flavors and abundant, round tannins. It feels very young and undeveloped, and the wine seems to have the stuffing and balance for a positive development in bottle. The 2017 and 2018 vintages were fermented in the new smaller vats, 8,000-liter (instead of the 20,000-liter vats they had originally until 2016), which will allow them to vinify smaller lots. 240,530 bottles produced.