Dominio de Es Viñas Viejas de Soria 2022
HK$ 993.90
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The barrel sample of the 2022 Viñas Viejas de Soria reveals a mixture of red and black fruit denoting ripeness with freshness. It comes from 35 plots in the village of Atauta that are planted with ungrafted Tempranillo and Albillo, and it fermented with 15% full clusters and 10% must in open-top oak vats with 59 days of maceration. It has matured in French oak barrels, 40% of them new, since February 2023 and, as of May 2024, is still in barrel. It has 14.92% alcohol, reflecting the warm and dry conditions of the low-yielding and concentrated year. It's still young, faintly creamy, juicy and fruit-driven, with abundant, slightly grainy tannins that still need to be polished. There should be around 10,000 bottles of this.
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Alcohol
14.5%
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Between 16ºC and 18ºC
Winemaking
Fermented with 40% whole bunches and 18 days of maceration. Aged for 18 months in French oak barrels (30% new).
Description
Dominio de Es Viñas Viejas de Soria was born high up on the Soria plateau, in Atauta (950-1,000 metres above sea level, within the Ribera del Duero DO). It was the bold decision of the Dominio de Es team - a project committed to organic and biodynamic viticulture -that prompted the recovery of pre-phylloxera vines, some over a hundred years old, in complex soils of sand, gravel, clay, silt and limestone. Goblet-trained vineyards, without irrigation, spread over 24 micro-plots totalling just 2.69 ha. A viticultural mosaic where Tinto Fino, Albillo, Alicante Bouschet and Garnacha coexist, cultivated without concessions to yield or fashion.
Winemaking
The Dominio de Es Viñas Viejas de Soria grapes are harvested by hand and meticulously. Forty percent of the bunches are fermented with stems, the rest destemmed, in small tanks at temperatures between 17 ºC and 29 ºC, with maceration for 18 days and gentle daily pump-overs of 5 minutes with oxygen. This technique allows for an elegant extraction, without excess. Ageing takes place in 25 Burgundian barrels (32% new) for 18 months, which gives the wine depth without overloading it with wood. Only 5,000 bottles are produced each year.
Taste
Intense, deep garnet colour. The nose of Dominio de Es Viñas Viejas de Soria opens with ripe black fruit, wild berries, fine cocoa and a background of damp earth and graphite. Subtle notes of sweet spices and dry leaf appear. The palate is precise and taut: silky tannins, good acidity, with a juicy fruit core but without artifice. Hints of black cherry, liquorice, a sanguine and mineral trace reminiscent of the chalky soil of origin. The finish is long, with balsamic notes, freshness and an austere, landscape-like, Altura-like impression. Dominio de Es Viñas Viejas de Soria is a refined, sober and profound wine that is more exciting for its texture and balance than for its exuberance. A different Ribera del Duero, which looks to its origins with respect and without shortcuts.
Shipping to Hong Kong
Estimated transit time: 3 working days.
| Bottles | Price | Complete box |
|---|---|---|
| 1-5 bottles | HK$ 138.02 | 6 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 7-11 bottles | HK$ 138.02 | 12 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 13-17 bottles | HK$ 138.02 | 18 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 19-23 bottles | HK$ 138.02 | 24 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 25-29 bottles | HK$ 138.02 | 30 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 31-35 bottles | HK$ 138.02 | 36 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 37-41 bottles | HK$ 138.02 | 42 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 43-47 bottles | HK$ 138.02 | 48 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 49-53 bottles | HK$ 138.02 | 54 bottles, Free shipping! |
| 55-59 bottles | HK$ 138.02 | 60 bottles, Free shipping! |
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