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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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