Bodegas Casado Morales EME de Casado Morales Mazuelo – 2015
Mazuelo
Only 3,500 bottles produced
91 points, Wine Advocate
91 points, James Suckling
$29.00
352 in stock
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Winemaker Joseba Casado’s family has been making wines along the Ebro River in Rioja for a century; the modern incarnation of their Casado Morales winery dates back to the 1960s.
A 100% mazuelo (known in France as carignan) is rare in Rioja. Ten years ago even they were non-existent. With this 2015 from winemaker Joseba Casado, perhaps Riojan mazuelo is ready to take first chair.
In this bottle you’ll find a bounty of blueberries, wild herbs, summer flowers, and spice in the nose; then a good body (not too big) on the palate, where juicy blueberry and flowers take the fore.