PV Tasting Notes
Prior to tasting this at the cellar, Jean Carlos had already informed me that there had been a very strict selection of the Celia and Ines, with the bulk of the fruit from these top two cuvees going into this wine. The end result is a youthful juicy wine with palate staining extract, the nose offers black raspberry, floral and mineral notes, the palate is full flavoured showing deep, sweet red fruit, blueberry, incense, star anise and liquorice, rather nervy in the mid palate with a strong mineral kick which energizes the back end, finishing long and sweet. Fabulous quality, tasted June 2009.
Independent Review92 points Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate June 2010
The 2008 J.C. Vizcarra, from a moderately challenging vintage, was the recipient of all the juice that would have gone into the estate’s upper-tier wines. It was aged for 15 months in 50% new French and American oak. A glass-coating opaque purple color, it displays an expressive bouquet of pain grille, pencil lead, Asian spices, lavender, and blackberry. Ripe, succulent, and structured, it has 2-3 years of aging potential and will provide prime drinking from 2012 to 2020. It is a great value in serious red wine.
Best served alongside all manner of Tapas, salami's, pink roast leg of lamb with redcurrant sauce, certainly lamb cutlets and it might well work with charry ribs of beef, or beef with olives, any meaty casserole and different soft cheese's and of course manchego Cheese.
Bodegas Vizcarra Ramos was founded by Juan Carlos Vizcarra in 1991. The estate owns 64 acres of vines (26 hectares) aged between 30 and 80 years, 100% Tempranillo and located near the town of Mambrilla and Roa in Burgos, long regarded as the best sub region of Ribera del Duero.
Certainly the Vizcarra wines are unique! Due entirely to Juan Carlos Vizcarra’s immense passion, determination and commitment which are self evident in these very elegant, structured and complex wines. He is one of a handful of genuine pioneer “garagistes” (small production winemaking) in the Ribera del Duero. Juan Carlos Commitment to Small production wines and gravity feed vinification results in genuine wines of immense structure, purity and balance.