Aalto, Ribera Duero Ps Vintage:2023 minerals and spice notes

minerals and spice notes

fermentation in stainless steel with neutral yeasts and an élevage of 16 months in new French barriques

grainy tannins

Conterno’s Barbera officially carries the Cascina Francia vineyard designation to differentiate it from a new single-vineyard Barbera from the Cerretta vineyard the estate will release beginning with the 2008 vintage

In this tasting

Aalto, Ribera Duero Ps Vintage:2023 minerals and spice notesI find the 2015 PS to be a little marked by the levage from a dry and warm year that resulted in a concentrated wine. The grapes come from La Horra, La Aguilera and Hontoria, and they used a little more grapes from La Horra. This is a ripe, heady, concentrated Tempranillo with abundant, grainy tannins. It's a wine for fans of the style and needs several years in bottle to balance its tannins. This reaches 15% alcohol. It's a different style from the