2016 Olivier Riviere - Pozo AltoColour : Red Producer : Olivier Riviere Label Name : Pozo Alto Country : Spain Region : Rioja Variety : Proprietary Blend Vintage : 2016 Capacity : 750 ml Standard Bottle Rating : RP97 Robert Parker Wine Advocate, Jeb Dunnuck 97 pts, James Suckling 97 pts Tasting Note : I was really looking forward to the 2016 Pozo Alto and to visiting the vineyard, which is surprisingly old and large (where he selects the best part for this bottling) and planted with

full-bodied

2009 and 2018 as one of the estate’s most significant growing seasons

the Sorì Tildìn is hauntingly beautiful today

An excellent wine

Readers will have to be patient with the Sperss

licorice and leather are some of the notes that add complexity and depth to the dark fruit

—Robert Parker (05/2011) Note: All images are for illustrative purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product

The wine sits within the grower Champagne movement’s most serious register: a wine of terroir rather than house style

Saint-Julien’s 1982 wines are consistently described by those who have tasted them as among the finest expressions of the appellation’s Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant style ever produced: combining the extraordinary concentration and opulence of the 1982 vintage with the elegance and mineral precision that the Saint-Julien terroir reliably provides even in its most powerful expressions

and then matured in a combination of barriques and larger 20

this is a wine of extraordinary ageing potential still in the early stages of its full development

when juxtaposing bottle and magnum on one occasion