2010 Pesquera, Crianza, Bodegas Alejandro Fernández

2010 Pesquera, Crianza, Bodegas Alejandro Fernández

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2010 Pesquera, Crianza, Bodegas Alejandro Fernández

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Alejandro Fernandez is justifiably proud of his 2010, a vintage in northern Spain, as in much of Europe, where finesse and power do not exclude each other and the fruit is pure and rich. The 2010 is, as usual, from 100% Tempranillo and has been aged, as is traditional, for 18 months in American barrel and 6 months in bottle before release. The wine is  excellent and must rank among the best Pesqueras of the last ten years.

The voluptuous creamy ripe fruit profile one has come to expect and savour; where this vintage really shows its class is in the tannic structure and spicy back-bone; extra layers of complexity invigorate and refresh the palate. Ideal with casseroles and cured cheeses and much more besides!
Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer

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Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

A high quality red wine grape that is grown all over Spain except in the hot South - it is known as Tinto Fino in Ribera del Duero, Cencibel in La Mancha and Valdepenas and Ull de Llebre in Catalonia. Its spiritual home is in Rioja and Navarra where it constitutes around 70% of most red blends.

Tempranillo-based wines tend to have a spicy, herbal, tobacco-like character accompanied by ripe strawberry and red cherry fruits. It produces fresh, vibrantly fruit driven "jovenes" meant for drinking young. However Tempranillo really comes into its own when oak aged, as with the top Riojas  where its flavours seem to harmonise perfectly with both French and American oak, producing rich, powerful and concentrated wines which can be extraordinarily long-lived.

In Ribera del Duero it generally sees less oak - the exception being Vega Sicilia where it is blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot and then aged for an astonishing 7 years in oak and is unquestionably one of the world`s greatest wines.

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