Arrocal, Ribera Del Duero Red

Grapes were harvested in September with excellent maturity. All of the fruit for this wine comes from estate grown vines and gravity drives all movements of must/wine to minimize hard tannins.

Grapes are hand harvested, destemmed but not crushed, macerated for 10 days in temperature controlled tanks followed by aging in 70% French and 30% American oak barrels for 8 months. Bottled without filtration after a gentle egg-white fining.

Winery: Bodegas Arrocal
Appellation: Ribera del Duero
Average age of vines: 20 years old
Farming Methods: Organic
Maturation: Aged for 6 months in 80% French and 20% American oak, 20% new
Soil: Alluvial sand, clay and pebbles on the surface
Varietal: Tempranillo
Vineyard Orientation: 850 meters
Vineyard Size: 10 hectares

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Arrocal, Ribera Del Duero Red 2022	91 View from the Cellar The regular bottling of Tinto Fino from Bodegas Arrocal is the estate’s young vine cuvée, as these vines are around twenty-five years of age, planted at an elevation of eight hundred and thirty meters above sea level. The wine is fermented with indigenous yeasts and then aged in three year-old French and American oak barrels for six months prior to bottling. The 2022 version is relatively low octane for Ribera del Duero, coming in at an even fourteen percent alcohol and delivering a lovely, deep bouquet of dark berries, black plums, coffee bean, cigar wrapper, dark soil tones and just a touch of oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and structured, with a firm chassis of ripe tannin, a great core of fruit, good soil undertow and grip and a long, promising and very well balanced finish. Despite this being the entry level wine from Bodegas Arrocal, it is built for the cellar and will need some time to blossom. But, it is going to be excellent once it is ready to drink. This is an outstanding value!	Bottle Image Label Image Shelf Talker Tech Sheet