Malleolus Emilio Moro ribera del duero 2008

Wonderfully smokey and lots of fruit sweetness with half hour of air. I think there is again as with Pruno, lovely vanilla blackberry on nose and palate. Then some tutti fruiti and banana. There's a delicacy here that's missing from most Rioja IMHO. Also some hazelnut perhaps, and a woodsy pine.

Again with Tom, deb and gabriel wine and cheese at 21 Elssholzstrasse.

This is more refined than the Pruno, but it's also 2 years older so that's one explanation. But also no doubt the vines are older too. This is such pure delight.