Faustino Rivera Ulecia Gran Reserva 2016

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Faustino Rivera Ulecia Gran Reserva 2016

Faustino Rivera Ulecia Gran Reserva 2016
$75, 13.5% alcohol, cork, Rioja (Spain)

You have to admire the restraint, the elegance, the finesse. This wine feels cool and well balanced, in the most positive of ways, with pippy strawberry and red berry flavours adorned attractively with blond tobacco, general fragrant herbs and twiggy spice notes. It’s complex and seamless at once, and while it’s well sustained through the finish, it feels neat-as-a-pin throughout. This wine is more about finesse than it is about brute force, and accordingly it is an absolute delight to drink. 94 points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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