2020 Ψ Psi, Bodegas y Viñedos Alnardo, Ribera del Duero, Spain

2020 Ψ Psi, Bodegas y Viñedos Alnardo, Ribera del Duero, Spain

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2020 Ψ Psi, Bodegas y Viñedos Alnardo, Ribera del Duero, Spain

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Description

The grapes are meticulously selected from a team of small growers with whom Peter Sisseck has worked since the first vintage in 2007. The vines are native clones, grown organically at 820-900 metres’ altitude. The wine is aged in a combination of vessels, including old French oak barrels previously used for Pingus and Flor de Pingus. This makes for an expressive and fragrant wine, with silky tannins and juicy fruit. This is once again the result of a pragmatic scientific approach to winemaking, with a biodynamic sensibility that makes Peter Sisseck stand out as a winemaker.

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Tim Atkin MW93/100

"The bank was very happy," says Peter Sisseck of the higher yields of the 2020 vintage. "We'll have to see how they age." Volumes of this négociant blend of Tinto Fino and 10% Garnacha are now up to 320,000 bottles and it's one of the best yet. Savoury, herbal and subtly reduced, with grippy tannins, racy underlying acidity, lots of bramble and red cherry fruit and just a hint of oak.

Drink 2024 - 2030

Tim Atkin MW, TimAtkin.com

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Bodegas y Vinedos Alnardo

Bodegas y Vinedos Alnardo

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Ribera del Duero

Ribera del Duero

In the last 30 years, Ribera del Duero has emerged from almost nowhere to challenge Rioja for the crown of Spain's greatest wine region. Once known only as the home of Vega Sicilia it now boasts numerous bodegas of outstanding quality like Cillar de Silos, Alión and Hacienda Monasterio. Ribera del Duero was granted its DO status in 1982, at a time when only nine bodegas were operating there, yet today it has over 200 wineries and more than 20,000 hectares of vines. Most of Ribera del Duero's production is red, with only a modest quantity of rosado produced. No white wines are allowed under the DO.

Ribera del Duero owes its success to a combination of factors: firstly, its terroir of schistous sub-soil bears remarkable similarity to other famous winemaking regions such as the Douro and Priorat. Secondly, its microclimate, with its high altitude, hot days and cool nights (a phenomenon known as “diurnal variation”), ensures ripeness while preserving the vivacity of the fruit, aromatic flavours and refreshing acidity.

Thirdly, it has been blessed with an exceptional native grape, Tempranillo (also known as Tinto del País or Tinto Fino). This yields superb, complex red wines that are delicious when young but which also have the capacity to age into magnificent Gran Reservas. Finally, the immense influence of its winemakers has been key – historically, of course, Vega Sicilia, but more recently Peter Sisseck (Hacienda Monasterio) and the indefatigable Aragón family of Cillar de Silos.

The same DO rules govern Ribera's barrel-aged styles as for Rioja: Crianzas are aged for two years before release with at least a year in oak barrels; Reservas must be three years old with at least a year spent in oak; and, finally, Gran Reservas must be five years old before going on sale, with two years spent in barrel. The young (joven) unoaked red wines, called Roble, tend to boast a moreish, vibrant, bramble fruit while the best oak-aged styles of Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva show intense, generous fruit, overlaid with notes of vanilla and sweet spice, and wrapped up in polished, elegant tannins.

Recommended producers: Vega Sicilia (including Alión), Cillar de Silos, Hacienda Monasterio

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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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