Dominio del Águila Albillo Viñas Viejas 2020

Spain’s most fascinating, award-winning and sought-after domaine tells the story of an enlightened vigneron, Jorge Monzón, from the two years he spent working alongside Bernard Noblet at the magical Domaine de la Romanée Conti, a year at Vega Sicilia, and 10 at Arzuaga Navarro, before returning to his home village of Aguilera in the Ribera del Duero. The humble and brilliant Jorge has collected the best old vines in the area, and with his talent, experience in seeking excellence in the smallest details, and vision in cherishing the ancient traditions of the Ribera, he is shocking the world with some of the greatest whites, clarets and reds in Spanish history.

Points: 96 Robert Parker
" The white 2020 Albillo Viñas Viejas also had a very slow fermentation because it's quite rich, and it feels more generous and rounder than the 2019 I tasted next to it. It has a more approachable nose that is less reductive and flinty, more civilized. It was a cool year, and the wine has amazing parameters—13% alcohol and a pH of 3.02 and no sugar—coming though as bone dry and chalky. It matured in French oak barrels for 35 months."