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1997 Rotllan Torra Tirant
Proprietary Blend: 750ml
$58.99
about this wine:
This wine is named for Tirant Lo Blanc, a heroic medieval knight who responded to the feudal chivalry ideals and principles proper to the Middle Age. His heroic deeds range from medieval tournaments to unceasing wars and maids and princesses rescuing.
This hero is strong and clever but also refined and elegant; he symbolizes a dark-colored wine with substance-- huge, with structure and richness in tannins, strong and powerful but also subtle and exquisite.
points awarded:
WA 92 WS 9592 points,
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, August 2000
...The superb, opaque purple-colored 1997 Tirant exhibits sweet, concentrated, jammy fruit intertwined with notions of asphalt, pepper, liquid minerals, and subtle spicy wood...
89 points,
Wine & Spirits, August 2000
...Full red-ruby. Sappy, floral aromas of red berries, rose petal, minerals and nutty, vanillin oak. Thick but vinous, with nuanced flavors of plum, redcurrant, tobacco and grilled nuts. Quite spicy and strong on the back end...
95 points,
Wine Spectator, June 2000
...Powerful and intense, this Spanish red is as ripe and rich as young Vintage Port, bursting with flavors of black cherries and blueberries, chocolate and coffee, supported by muscular yet round tannins. An impressive achievement in an age of blockbuster wines...

