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

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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