AALTO PS 2021 TEMPRANILLO Ribera del Duero vol 15.0

AALTO PS 2021

Climatic conditions

The farming year started with a rainy October, autumn had smooth temperatures and rainfalls were around 150 l/m2. The year 2021 began with a strong storm, Filomena, that caused big snowfalls and a sudden decrease of temperatures reaching -12ºC. Soft temperatures and little precipitation remained the rest of winter. Springtime initiated with a decrease of temperatures and some frosts in mid-April that scarcely affected the buds. The vines sprouted the first days of May.

July started with smooth temperatures and a heat wave arrived in the middle of this month whose high temperatures extended until August. No rains happened.

September’s storms left some showers that led to an optimal ripening of the grapes.

Grape origin

100% Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) primarily from very old vines – 60 to 90 years old – from selected plots in La Horra and La Aguilera.

The harvest was done by hand, in small boxes of 15 kilos that are thoroughly inspected, bunch by bunch, on the selection table.

Tasting notes

Intense purple colour. Black fruits together with spicy nuances displayed in the glass confer on this wine complexity and elegance on the nose. It is fresh on the mouth; its soft and silky tannins give it great intensity and volume.

Average oak ageing

21 months in new French oak barrels.