2014 - PS, Aalto, Ribera del Duero

100% Tempranillo, vines aged 40-80 years. This is a barrel sample but pretty much the final wine. Deep purple crimson. Dark, rich, lots of new-oak spice but the fruit is so concentrated and pure that the oak cannot dominate. Chewy, deep, mouth-filling, swelling to a crescendo of dark fruit beyond the initial oak impact. This is not the sort of wine I tend to drink but it is singing with old-vine concentration and purity. Powerful and long and a lot more to come. Although it is so young, you really could enjoy it now, so generous is the fruit. The intensity of the fruit is balanced by oak spice and a savoury oak char/smoke. Persistent. (JH)