Chivite, Coleccion 125 Reserva, Navarra

What a great product! Great complexity, deep taste, long finish... very good!

tuoksu: tumma maanläheinen, kypsän luumuinen, roteva, mausteinen maku: pehmeä, pitkä, tamminen, maanläheinen, "multainen", kompleksi kypsä viini nautittavaksi mutta paranee varmasti vielä muutaman vuoden ajan pysyen rotevana ja voimakkaana viininä.

starts a bit flat but opens up considerably after a few hours. Vanilla coffee beans and some dried cranberries. A medium body and medium finish. I think it is ripe and ready.

Nose: Vanilla, spices, cherries, red berries. Mouth: Consistent with the nose. Some barnyard, too. Lacks a bit of expressivness and is a bit too tame for my liking. Probably past its peak.

Drank this tonight at Peng's Catering with 2 female colleagues from my team. Colour is purplish red. Smooth, lush and rich on the palate, with notes of ripe cherries and berries on the nose and palate. This is a versatile wine which opens up to plums and oak and cigar notes. Very good balance, presence and structure. Elegant and beautiful. A very nice wine which I wished I had more of.

De couleur rubis, nez assez discret sur le boisé, cerise noire et prune. Bonne acidité, on retrouve les mêmes aromes qu'au nez. Vin facile à boire mais manques un peu de complexité.

Still youthful colour. Generous, open bouquet with plum fruit, tobacco, sundried tomato, oak. Full bodied, smooth palate, plenty of dark plum fruit, well integrated oak, soft tannins. Finishes well, some tobacco coming back, oak, medium acidic lift. Very nice, rich, with good complexity, balance. This is much better than when I last had a C 125 red, which was probably a late nineties vintage.

Powerfull with licorice and cherrystone. Lots of minerals makes it perfect with heavy foods.

Black fruit, some vanilla overtones, tabacco and cedar with smooth tannins and long but also a bit flat finish. The wine dies a little to quick on the palate to score above 90.

Perfect balance! Great value for money.

Lovely wine with layers of fruit and discrete, but pertinent oak in nose and palate. The oak is just right; present, but very moderate and giving complexity and structure to all the juicy dark and red fruit or berrys (blueberry and lingonberry). Elegant and long finish. This should hold for a couple of years, but it's absolutely lovely now. Second bottle 131228 This is a flirty, modern wine with lots of fruit, but with enough backbone for me. Excellent!

Ruby purple color. Nose of plums, dark berries, cherries, cassis, some tobacco and some licorice. On the palate there is dark fruit, tobacco, some smoke, leather and some tar. Medium-full body, medium acidity and medium tannins with a touch of dryness. Long finish. Pretty modern, but interesting blend with enough structure to be balanced.