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09 Genium Cellar Excel Lent 2009

Priorato, Spain

Community Score: 4.2/5
Community Reviews: 1

Price: $72.00

Sweetness: Extra Dry
Alcohol: 15.5%

Drink: Now

Bottle size: 750 ml
Winery: Genium Celler

Emilie Ryan rated this wine as 85/100 with the following review:

Appearance: Very dark red, no tinge of orange whatsoever despite it being over 5 years old
Nose: leather, burned firewood/ash (like a fireplace after putting out a fire)
Taste: Quite tight and tannic at first taste, so I decanted it. It was better after that, tasting of leather, earth, minerals, and sour berries. It tasted even better with food, mainly a cheese, tomato and black pepper crêpe, though it was still a little tight (the wine, not the crêpe). The sour fruit emerged when I had it with a little dark chocolate, but I think the wine should be cellared longer, perhaps as long as another 10 years, so it can relax.
Finish: leather, earth and long on the alcohol, unsurprisingly given it has a 16% alcohol content (I didn’t know that was legal for a wine)!
Overall impression: An interesting wine, drinkable now, but should be much better over the next several years. There was quite a bit of sediment (perhaps ash from the fireplace), so I would recommend filtering the wine.

Value: 1/5 – Way overpriced at this point.

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