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Tasting notes from past riojas that I have enjoyed:

1997 RIOJA RESERVA Marqués de Murrieta
- very ripe fruit taste - give it several more years 2007
1997 RIOJA GRAN RESERVA Marqués de Villamagna
- very good fruit - typical older rioja late 2007
1995 RIOJA GRAN RESERVA Marqués de Riscal
- Light? No way. Big wine with gobs of mature fruit - bold! 2006
1996 RIOJA RESERVA Viňa Herminia
- Very good. Typical reserva.
1998 RIOJA RESERVA Viňa Ijalba
- A little uneven - very good though.
1996 RIOJA RESERVA Bodegas Campillo- Monticello Riserva
- Very good. Starts with fruit & lots of Spanish oak. Yum.
1999 RIOJA Salceda
- nice drinking
1992 RIOJA GRAN RESERVA Marqués De Cáceres
- very nice, good fruit, shy on the oak
1994 RIOJA RESERVA Marqués del Puerto Reserva
- Very good. Fruit & more fruit. Very little oak.
1995 RIOJA RESERVA Ontañon
- Very good. Fruit & lots of Spanish oak. Yummy.
1996 RIOJA RESERVA Bodegas y Vinedos del Marques de Vargas, S.A.
- Very nice - full fruit (would have liked more time?) a lot of oak - old style rioja
1997 RIOJA COSME PALACIO Y HERMANOS Bodegas Palacio
- Very nice - full fruit a lot of oak - old style
1970 RIOJA RESERVA Bodegas Lan
- incredible – great balance of fruit & oak – amazing for a 29 yr old wine

Ian