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Dominio de Atauta Valdegatiles 2016

Dominio de Atauta Valdegatiles

2016
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95
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£140.00

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Spec sheet

TypeRed wine
Region
Grapes
Producer
AllergensContains sulfites
Alcohol contenti14.5%

The wine

A robust wine and, according to the winery, Atauta’s most authentic. Undoubtedly a wine with great personality, like all those from this winery which works hard to recover what must have been in the past a magnificent wine-growing area, but which had surprisingly been abandoned until present times.

The Valdegatiles plot is a small vineyard of just 1.7 ha, with pre-phylloxera vines.

Aged for 16 months in French oak barrels.

What does this wine taste like?

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Picota cherry red / Intense
Bouquet
Powerful / Concentrated / Ripe fruit / Balsamic notes / Spicy notes / Mineral notes
Mouth
Full / Fresh / Powerful / Intense / Ripe black fruit / Long

Drinking and storing

Serve between 16ºC and 18ºC

Ratings and awards

201895 PK
201794 PK
201695 PK
201494 PK
201393+ PK93 PN
201292 PK94 PN
PK: ParkerPN: Peñín

Wine critics reviewsReviews by Parker

The 2018 Valdegatiles is the most structured of the single-vineyard bottlings from 2018, a challenging year with a happy end. This was bottled at 14.3% alcohol and with a pH of 3.51, so medium ripeness and a medium to full-bodied palate with good freshness, acidity and balance, but it's still a little marked by the élevage of 18 months in second use French oak barrels. This terroir has more clay, and the wines tend to be wider and more voluptuous, with generous tannins. This needs more time in bottle. 1,343 numbered bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2020.

— Luis Gutiérrez (31/01/2023)Robert Parker Wine Advocate Vintage 2018 - 95 PARKER

Customer reviews

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Winemaking

Vinification materialWood
Ageing period16 months
Type of woodFrench oak

The winery

Dominio de Atauta

Dominio de Atauta

The Dominio de Atauta winery is located in the Atauta valley in the province of Soria in central Spain. They own 21 hectares of vines and supervise another 22, meaning they manage around 600 plots altogether at altitudes of over 1000 metres. The winery's goal is to demonstrate the full potential of their pre-phylloxera Tinto Fino vines with ages ranging between 85 and 150 years old. The Atauta valley has a history of over 500 years of winemaking in extremely severe conditions,...

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