Tasting notes

A highly-extracted, polished red wine, aged 25 months in American and French oak. Like the wines from neighboring Toro, showing powerful structure and ageworthiness, with a balance of clean fruit and palate length so typical of a Fernández wine. A hallmark vintage.

Rating

Decanter 91 points Aromas of black raspberry, blackberry, cassis, mocha and espresso. Dense, lush and sappy, with an impressive core of sweet black raspberry, dark chocolate and nutty oak flavors. Velvety, sweet and large-scaled but still quite unevolved. A somewhat unrefined but impressive wine that finishes very long, with building tannins. The strongest vintage yet for Alejandro Fernandez’s third Ribera del Duero project (after Pesquera and Condado de Haza), and a great value.  Decanter 91 points Aromas of black raspberry, blackberry, cassis, mocha and espresso. Dense, lush and sappy, with an impressive core of sweet black raspberry, dark chocolate and nutty oak flavors. Velvety, sweet and large-scaled but still quite unevolved. A somewhat unrefined but impressive wine that finishes very long, with building tannins. The strongest vintage yet for Alejandro Fernandez’s third Ribera del Duero project (after Pesquera and Condado de Haza), and a great value.