Deep berry aromas blend with sweet, creamy, spicy oak notes on the nose of this cellar-worthy bruiser, which is live-wire, energetic and holding a lot in reserve. A full allotment of oak-driven flavors include coffee, mocha, pepper, baked berry and chocolate. On the finish it's huge and tastes of toast, medicinal berry and chocolate-drenched cherries. Drink from 2015-2025.

The 2010 Malleolus is, like all their wines, 100% Tempranillo. The grapes fermented in stainless steel vats with indigenous yeasts and malolactic was in French oak barriques where the wine then aged for 18 months. Malleolus is the Latin word for majuelo, which in Spanish means small plot of vines. It has a balsamic nose of cigar ash and incense, raspberry leaf and a mixture of red and black berries, quite showy, in a commercial, well-oaked style. The palate is medium-bodied with abundant, grainy, dusty tannins. Good stuffing (but less than the regular Emilio Moro 2011), and for what they tell me the 2011 will be even better. Drink 2015-2020. - Luis Gutierrez