Olivier Riviere, Losares Vintage:2015 ripe and pretty nose offers

ripe and pretty nose offers up notes of pear

what this estate will produce in the next twenty years will completely surpass the previous twenty years

This is tighter and less expressive with better aromatic depth to the plum and liqueur-like aromas of dark berries cut with ample amounts of wet stone and earth

Entry-level blend sourced 60% from the volcanic soils of Eola-Amity Hills including Bunker Hill vineyard

Olivier Riviere, Losares Vintage:2015 ripe and pretty nose offersThere was no 2014 of Losares, so he jumped from the initial 2013 to the 2015 Losares. There will be no 2017 because it was lost to frost. This is always a generous, round and lush wine, especially now that I compare it with the new Pozo Alto. It's mostly Tempranillo with a 5% blend of other grapes from a vineyard planted in 1930, and it fermented with 20% full clusters. It matured in 600 liter oak barrels for 18 months. 800 bottles were filled in June