Dominio del Águila Peñas Aladas Gran Reserva 2018

Dominio del Águila Peñas Aladas Gran Reserva 2018
Ribera del Duero DO, Spain
Certified Organic

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Producer

Spain’s most fascinating, awarded, and coveted domaine tells the story of a visionary vigneron: Jorge Monzón. After two years working alongside Bernard Noblet at the magical Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, one year at Vega Sicilia, and a decade at Arzuaga Navarro, Jorge returned to his native village of La Aguilera in Ribera del Duero. With humility and brilliance, he gathered the finest old vines in the region. Through his talent, obsessive attention to the smallest details, and vision of honouring Ribera’s ancient traditions, he is now astonishing the world with some of the greatest white, clarete, and red wines in Spanish history.

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Wine

Dominio del Águila Peñas Aladas Gran Reserva 2018 is one of the crown jewels of Ribera del Duero. Produced from Jorge Monzón’s finest old vines, organically cultivated at high altitude, this wine represents an extraordinary expression of terroir, precision, and aging potential.

Aged for an impressive 53 months in French oak barrels, the 2018 vintage delivers a complex and intense bouquet: licorice, wilted violets, wet chalk, spices (nutmeg), toasted nuts (pecan), and a touch of volatility, all underpinned by great freshness. The palate is dry and savoury, with fine chalky tannins and a mouth-watering, almost salty finish. All the components are impeccably balanced, promising seamless evolution in bottle.

A truly impressive wine, destined to age effortlessly for 30 years or more. An iconic Gran Reserva from one of Spain’s greatest winemakers.

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Score

99 points – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
"It has a very intense nose of licorice, flowers (decayed violets), wet chalk, spices (nutmeg), some nuts (pecan) and a volatile twist with great freshness. It matured in French oak barrels for 53 months. It has a fine thread, a chalky and dry feeling, fine tannins and a dry and very tasty finish that's almost salty. It has all the components and the balance with them to develop nicely in bottle. It should age effortlessly for 30 years. It's very impressive, but it doesn't reach the elegance of the 2016."

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