Faustino Rivero Ulecia Reserva Utiel-Requena 2019

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Faustino Rivero Ulecia Reserva Utiel-Requena 2019.

Faustino Rivero Ulecia Reserva Utiel-Requena 2019
$9.99, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Spain.

Love the price and Aldi usually nails the brief but this wine doesn’t really do it for me. My bottle at least felt a bit out of condition, a bit stale for want of a better word, and really did show that it’s six years old, and not in a good way. Leather, raspberry, herb and honey flavours here. It’s OK, it’s drinkable, it’s not rough, but it’s not great. 85 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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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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