Dominio de Atauta 2017 Magnum

The 2017 Dominio de Atauta is a blend of their different terroirs from the Atauta Valley, mostly north-facing vineyards with clay-rich soils. It shows the character of the place and is a wine that fills your palate and has good depth and keeps the freshness (clay helps there), where they look for the character of the limestone mother rock. It has a ripe red-fruit profile with an élevage in oak barrels with a change since 2016, as they use a lot less new oak (around 15% to 20% instead of 50%). It combines power and elegance and showcases the cooler part of Ribera del Duero even in a slightly warmer and drier year. Here, the frost that decimated other parts of Ribera del Duero didn't touch the Atauta Valley. 43,316 bottles and 720 magnums produced. It was bottled in July 2019.bravo!