Valderiz, Ribera del Duero, Valdehermoso Crianza

🇪🇸Tinta del País con 27 meses de crianza en barricas de roble francés y americano (80-20%). Alc/Vol 15%. En copa, presenta un color rubí violáceo de capa alta y ribete granate todavía corto. Aromas a frutos negros maduros y confitados, tabaco, café, chocolate. En boca, se mantiene robusto y estructurado, pero ya está en muy buen momento, armonioso e integrado, con paso redondo, final largo y un sabroso deje a chocolate. 🍽️Lo maridamos con los tradicionales ñoquis del día 29, …

Muy concentrado con aromas de fruta negra y chocolate. Los casi diez añitos le han dado tiempo para integrarse y está en un momento fenomenal. Taninos integrados pero arenosos y con una frescura salivante.

Dia das Mães

This is 100% tinta del pais (Tempranillo), grown on gravel topped soil and with quite low intervention methods. It sees 36 months in oak, 80% French and the rest new American oak. Vibrant purple red in the glass, the oak is certainly still prominent on the nose. Even over a couple of days this continues to display a hardly moved persona of bright red/dark fruits and vanillin. Verges towards the extravagant, but not quite to the extent of being unbalanced. …

Deep ruby in color, this wine shows copious levels of both black and red fruits, primarily plum, as well as vanilla, raspberry and baking chocolate on the nose. The mouth feel is medium-bodied and rich with borderline sweet tannins. The finish was medium in length with the black and red fruits standing out. 14.5% abv. Purchased for $19US, this is a well made wine from a quality producer. It shows its sense of place but also has enough up front …