2010 El Nido Clio
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The 2010 Clio is a blend of Monastrell with 30% Cabernet Sauvignon. As is customary here, the grapes fermented in open 4.5-ton stainless-steel vat and aged for 23 months on barriques. It has ripe notes of plums, esparto grass and some tree bark with a shy jamminess. The palate is medium to full-bodied with some tannins to be resolved and a slightly burning sensation that is pungent and powerful and a little sweet toward the finish. This wine somehow feels like it's evolving fast, and while it's going to keep, I don't think it's going to improve in the bottle, so I wouldn't keep it that long. 60,000 bottles were produced.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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(70% monastrell and 30% cabernet sauvignon; aged for 24 months in new French and American oak): Opaque ruby. Ripe, expressive scents of black raspberry, cassis, dark chocolate, vanilla and potpourri. Fat, full and concentrated, offering intense black and blue fruit preserve flavors and notes of licorice and mocha. Finishes spicy and very long, with smooth, sweet tannins and slow-building smokiness.
Even to the eye alone this wine is impressive, with superripe aromas, deep cherry, cacao, cherry liquor, blackberry juice. Monastrell is supplemented by 30% Cabernet Sauvignon. All the aromas are reminiscent of ripeness. Notably dense, with extremely ripe, rounded tannin and some dairy flavours in the aftertaste. (FC)