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Dominio del Águila Peñas Aladas Gran Reserva 2018

Dominio del Águila Peñas Aladas Gran Reserva

2018
99
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Spec sheet

TypeRed wine
Region
Grapes
Producer
AllergensContains sulfites
Alcohol contenti14.0%

The wine

Peñas Aladas is the most exclusive wine from Dominio del Águila, a winery widely-praised by specialist media in recent years. A wonderful Gran Reserva, it is produced with grapes collected from the small 85-year-old Peñas Aladas plot located in the village of La Aguilera.

Most of the vines are Tempranillo ones but other varieties such as Bruñal or Albillo make up around 15% of the total. With their firm commitment to maintaining traditional techniques, whole bunches of grapes are crushed together without destemming in traditional vats known as lagars. The must is then fermented in stainless steel with local yeasts before being transferred to French oak barrels to undergo a malolactic fermentation and 51 months' ageing in cool underground cellars at the winery. This slow and careful process rounds the wine off perfectly and gives it an amazing complexity.

It has a suggestive cherry-red colour and a seductive nose brimming with pure fragrances of violets, wild berries and exotic spices. It is complex and mature in the mouth, with a silky palate, elegant tannins and an austere minerality. An often sought-after but rarely-found freshness and elegance make it a perfectly-balanced wine with an irresistible personality. With a limited production of only one thousand bottles, Peñas Aladas is an exclusive treasure and undoubtedly a new icon in the world of Ribera del Duero wines.

Drinking and storing

Serve between 16ºC and 18ºC

Food pairing

Hare / Roasted duck / Roast lamb

Ratings and awards

201899 PK
2016100 PK
201598 PK97 PN
201496 PK99 PN96 SK
201399 PK
201295+ PK98 PN98 DC
PK: ParkerPN: PeñínSK: SucklingDC: Decanter

Wine critics reviewsReviews by Parker

The youth, freshness, balance and harmony of the 2016 Peñas Aladas Gran Reserva is gobsmacking. The wine is a little shy, insinuating, reticent and a little closed, and it feels younger than it is. It comes from a collection of small plots of some of the oldest vines in the village of La Aguilera in the lieu-dit, or "paraje," that names the wine, in a small valley surrounded by pine, holm and juniper trees, where there is a cold draft of air and the temperature is lower than in the rest of the village. The soils are sandy and intermixed with clay on a marl mother rock. The plants are mostly Tempranillo, but as they are very old vines, there's always a field blend of other varieties—Albillo Mayor, Monastrell, Garnacha, Bobal and Cariñena—all fermented together with full clusters that were foot trodden in concrete vats and indigenous yeasts. Malolactic was in barrel and lasted for 11 months, while the élevage was extended to a total of 55 months (almost five years!). After all this time in barrels, the wine is not oaky at all; it's floral and perfumed, elegant, nuanced and layered. The texture is silky, and it's medium-bodied, with moderate ripeness, 14% alcohol and very good freshness denoted by a pH of 3.41. It has fine tannins that make it nicely textured and fine-boned, with subtle minerality. This should be veeeeeery long lived, as it has the stuffing, all the ingredients and the balance between them to make old bones. Amazing juice. 3,591 bottles and 51 magnums were filled in April 2021.

— Luis Gutiérrez (31/01/2023)Robert Parker Wine Advocate Vintage 2016 - 100 PARKER

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The winery

Dominio del Águila

Dominio del Águila

Founded in 2010, Dominio del Águila is where Jorge Monzón and Isabel Rodero’s dream of creating elegant and pure wines has come true. Organic wines, suitable for laying down for a long, long time but also perfect to be enjoyed at any time. Following in the footsteps of generations of winemakers and having studied at the Universities of Bordeaux and Burgundy, Jorge has an impressive background in the world of wine: his experience...

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