Bodegas El Nido Clio 2003
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Product Details
Varietal
Producer
Vintage
2003
Size
750ML
Features
Collectible
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Winemaker Notes
The wine exhibits a glass-coating opaque purple color withan expressive nose of pain grille, underbrush, brier, mineral,blueberry, and blackberry fruit leading to a plush, opulentwine with great density, savory flavors, and a lengthy finish.
A good pair with rice, pasta, (noodles, spaghetti, macaroni), vegetables,mushroom, stewed meat, sausage, pork, roast meat, redand/or white meat with sauces, grilled meat, short or mediumcheeses.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
A blend of 30% Cabernet Sauvignon (26-year-old vines) and 70% Mourvedre (61-year-old vines), the 2003 Clio spent 26 months in French and American oak. Its deep purple color is accompanied by classic aromas of creme de cassis intermixed with licorice, espresso roast, chocolate, and toasty oak. Its broad, intensely flavored, super-opulent personality offers up great fruit, plenty of glycerin, and a heady, long finish. Approachable now, it should be at its best in 2-5 years, and drink well for 10-15.
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Wine Spectator
This big red is expressive, with vibrant currant, chocolate, orange peel and toasted walnut flavors and a firm tannic foundation. Exotic and alluring. Mourvèdre and Cabernet Sauvignon.
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The Bodegas El Nido project is the result of the collaboration of the Gil
Family and Chris Ringland (one of the best Australian enologists and
author of Clio and El Nido) and others.
The winery is located in the Valle de La Aragona, inside the Murcia district of Jumilla and surrounding area. The vineyards are 76.8 acres of very old vaso trained Monatrell vines oriented northeast, and 28.8 acres of 30 year old Cabernet Sauvignon planted on smooth hills looking north.
Monastrell vines are planted in a foot deep layer of chalky stones over substrat a of sandy soil. Cabernet vines are planted in vineyards with chalky, stony soil over a layer of sandy soil with clay.
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