La Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza Reserva 1989

Brick-edged and fully evolved, the 1989 Ardanza opens with dried cherry, plum and loam, threaded through with milk chocolate and a telling note of coconut — the unmistakable signature of long American oak aging. Sweet-fruited and broad in the mouth, with bitter chocolate and that coconut character balanced by ripe, well-knit acidity. The finish lingers with dark fruit and cocoa. At its peak now.