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93 WA.
"Comparisons can be tedious. Especially if you are compared with the 1954. The 1952 Viña Real Gran Reserva was very good, but not as good as most of us were expecting. The wine is from the same year Eva Perón died, Steven Seagal was born, the vaccination against polio was discovered, the first edition of the Miss Universe pageant was held, Elizabeth II was proclaimed Queen of Great Britain after the death of her father, King George VI, and cinemas showed the openings of "Singin' in the Rain" and Cecil B. DeMille's "The Greatest Show on Earth." Yes, comparisons. In the U.S. the President was Harry S. Truman. In Rioja, 1952 was a great overall vintage with a long vegetative cycle (212 days), a cool July and a dry and warm August, which resulted in a somehow austere and different wine. This is not the best bottle of the 1952, as it showed evolution with some sweet aromas and beef blood hints of iron, slightly oxidative. The palate is polished . . ." eRobertParker.com #218, Apr 2015 |