112,00 €
The land version of this wine is already excellent, and that’s the bit worth saying first — nobody sends a mediocre bottle to the bottom of the sea and hopes for the best. This is proper Ribera del Duero. Then something else happens to it.
The fruit is Tinto Fino from Quintanilla de Arriba, right in the heart of the appellation, hand-harvested and given eighteen months in new French oak followed by a further rest in bottle at the winery. Only then does it go twenty-four metres down off Cabo de las Huertas for nine months, in water that holds 15–19°C all year with the current working against it the entire time.
Garnet in the glass with a clean rim. It opens fruity and then the oak arrives properly — woodsmoke, dried spice, leather, roasted coffee and cocoa over black fruit. Full-bodied and powerful, but what catches me every time is how round it is. The tannin has settled in a way it has no business doing this early.
15–17°C, and open it three-quarters of an hour before you pour. Slow-cooked stews, anything off a chargrill, game, and hard aged cheeses — it will handle all of it.
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