2001 D.O. La Mancha Tempranillo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Fairly cool fruit, sour cherries and ripe plums, pronounced tobacco aromas, spicy component, rosemary and sage. Very attractive fruit on the palate, more cool cherry fruit, more rosemary, also eucalyptus, cedar wood, elegant tannins and elegant acidity, good finish.

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