3 bottles of Berberana Great Reserve 1950, excellent condition, perfect capsules and corks, perfect levels If you want to understand Rioja, the Berberana is a good way, these three bottles are a clear example of a job well done. For a cellar of great Spanish wines Winemaking: It initially remains for 12 months in large old wooden vats from the winery's founding period, where it completes malolactic fermentation and stabilises before being racked. Aged for 48 months in used 225-litre American oak barrels, with an average age of 10 years. The wine is manually racked twice a year. Transfer of the wines to tank for blending. Bottled in mid-1979 in 70 and 75 cl. bottles. A minimum of 3 years of ageing in the cellar cellars before being marketed. Tasting notes: Bottle with a clear decline although of a beautiful medium ruby colour, limpid, clear, without the slightest hint of precipitates. High quality cork, with vintage marking, slightly stained, elastic. It has come out in one piece. Grenadine and coppery reflections, refulgent. Wide rim, tarnished. A shady, earthy Berberana, identifiable with its vintage: fully settled, with an absolute predominance of undergrowth notes that give it an autumnal air and provide it with a good dose of elegance. Ample, ripe, open and delicate at the same time, full of dried fruit (macerated plums, dried apricots, dried apricots), with fine woods, smoky notes and that hint of vanilla that is the hallmark of the winery. It shows less length than the Gran Reserva '70, although it makes up for it with all the charm we can imagine. On the palate it does not deviate from the above. It is delicate, light, barely visible, medium-bodied, benefiting from a very successful freshness that covers a reduced red fruit core that does not last for long. It is still with us and will be for a long time, but everything indicates that it has reached an ideal moment for drinking. The air suits it well, spicing it up, gaining in presence but without losing concealment. It seems never to have had a single edge. Things like this should be bottled in double magnum formats. Impossible to drink a single bottle. Fast shipping, boxed and insured.