Dominio de Es Viñas Viejas de Soria 2018

The common theme between the 25 parcels that make up this wine, apart from the fact that they are all in the Atauta Valley, is limestone soils and it shows in the remarkable freshness of what is a big and powerful wine. Fermented with 30% whole bunches and blended with 5% Albillo, it's a richly oaked, youthful red with serious tannins and flavours of aniseed, blackberry and wild thyme. Ambitious stuff that will develop complexity with time in bottle. 2024-32

The 2018 Viñas Viejas de Soria comes from 25 plots of old vines from the village of Atauta and is a blend of 92% Tinto Fino and 8% Albillo. It fermented with 30% full clusters and indigenous yeasts in open-top oak vats and matured in 228-liter Burgundian barrels for 18 months including malolactic. It's 14.5% alcohol but feels fresh and balanced, a little in the style of the 2016, floral and expressive. The palate is medium to full-bodied, with very fine tannins and a long finish. 5,200 bottles, 154 magnums and 12 Jeroboams produced. It was bottled in June 2020.

A firm, very silky red with plum, cherry and some hazelnut undertones. Cedar and dried mushroom, too. It’s medium bodied with integrated tannins and a long, delicious finish. Drink or hold.