2011 Cillar de Silos Estate 'Crianza' Tempranillo, Ribera del Duero Castilla y León
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Up in the Northern hill-slopes rising out of the Duero valley, the Aragon family have a couple of truly special patches of very gnarled old Tempranillo vines, 60 and 80 years' age. Soil is slightly heavier and more minerally than the sandy valley floor, but heavy clay is avoided. Wines of elegance and concentration; savoury with great earthy perfumes.
Cillar de Silos is archetypal of the modernisation of the Spanish wine scene, where great old vine material is taken out of co-op production and transformed into low crop, concentrated, fleshy, elegant modern estate wine.
This is a 'Crianza' wine which means it has been aged for at least two years, at least one of which was in oak.
Blueberry, tobacco and hung beef - it's gotta be Ribera! Well, good Ribera anyway ...With a pronounced earthiness, cool and precise in line, low in fructose, elegant and fine. Not a wine of bigness, it's a lovely, pure wine of very high quality and beautifully composed. Dark cherry fruit specked with tobacco melds into a fine tannin line which itself seems indivisible from fruit and also from earth and is wired on steely minerals and fine natural acidity.| Product/Service Sold Out | Yes |
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| En Primeur | No |
| New Arrivals | No |
| Wine Type | Red Wine |
| Wine Style | Biodynamic |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Castilla y Leon |
| Varietals | Tempranillo |
| Vintage | 2015 |
| Bottle Size | 750ml |
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