ON-269860 BC-779520

La Posta Cocina Tinto Red Blend 2013

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Red Blend Red Blend
Mendoza, Argentina

$12.95 (269860)

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Critic Reviews (7)

Rhys Pender, MW
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Rhys Pender, MW

Lots of chocolatey oak, black forest cake and ripe blueberry and brambly berry on the nose. The palate is balanced...

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Steve Thurlow
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Steve Thurlow

The 2013 shows a little more complexity and elegance than the 2012, that I tasted a few weeks ago, which was also an...

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Sara d'Amato
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Sara d'Amato

Consistently a very good value, the La Posta blend offers up plenty of densely packed fruit on the palate, cedar and...

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Michael Godel
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Michael Godel

Heavy, brooding and pitchy blend of syrups with breakfast starch in mind. Thick, oozing lake of dark fruits with...

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Treve Ring
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Treve Ring

Deep, ripe blueberry, blackberry jam. Sweet, dense fruit is lifted with some juicy raspberry jam, dark chocolate...

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Craig Pinhey
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Craig Pinhey

Quite an oaky nose, with crowd pleasing juicy berry fruit and sweet oak vanilla. Sweet and spicy on the finish. A...

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Anthony Gismondi
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Anthony Gismondi

Pleasant, soft round mocha cherry aromas and flavours. Not a lot of structure or style but plenty of soft blueberry...

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Paul Yeoman
Paul Yeoman

This is good, but I think there are better "general purpose red" options for under $13. It's likely a wine I would buy to give as a gift to infrequent wine drinkers -- the label does look pretty impressive and makes it appear to be a more expensive wine than it is.

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