2020 | Telmo Rodríguez Matallana | Ribera del Duero | Spain Gargiulo Vineyards refined vanilla shadings and baking-spice

refined vanilla shadings and baking-spice notes

I love the quality of the brambled blackberry and loganberry fruit here

offering a dry

it’s a finessed style that’s ready to drink out of the gate and should also hold up nicely for another decade

This is round with a pretty inner sweetness offset by tart orchard fruits and hints of sour citrus

2020 | Telmo Rodríguez Matallana | Ribera del Duero | Spain Gargiulo Vineyards refined vanilla shadings and baking-spiceTelmo Rodrguez's singular Ribera del Duero old vine field blend, 96 points, with vineyard names literally redacted on the label. Matallana is the Ribera del Duero flagship from Telmo Rodrguez and Pablo Eguzkiza two of Spain's great terroir champions. It's a field blend of Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) with Navarro, Valenciano, Albillo and other indigenous grapes, from old vines across five villages and eleven plots. In protest of rules that forbid naming