CONVENTO SAN FRANCISCO 'La Zapatera' Field Blend - Ribera del Duero 2018 Bottle ORG/BIO (los)
Red Still Wine | Spain | Ribera del Duero | 75cl
£69.95
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£419.70
£398.72 case
ABV: 15%
Size: 75cl
Closure Type: Cork
Country: Spain
Region: Ribera del Duero
Wine Style: Full Bodied
Grape: Tempranillo
Description
This is the inaugural vintage of a frankly mind-blowing wine from a 2h single vineyard located in the village of Fuentenebro, Burgos planted in 1920 and 1940 respectively.
La Zapatera – the shoemaker – is a truly hand-made wine, fermented and macerated in a small tank, aged for 22 months in new French barriques, only 2,779 bottles made.
Tempranillo is the main component of this field blend, and it is perhaps a touch of the white Albillo grape that helps to give this wine its utterly plush and luxurious texture. Opaque purple / black in the glass with lovely floral scents on the nose and delicate notes of wild herbs, marzipan, bergamot and rose petals followed by notes of toasty oak sweetness, but the wine is perfectly integrated, even in its youth. Honestly, this is staggeringly good and if this is the first vintage, the mind boggles at the prospect of future iterations.