2015 Abadía Retuerta Pago Negralada
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The textbook Tempranillo 2015 Pago Negralada, tasted 10 years after the harvest is still quite tannic. This was harvested on September 24, quite early in a warm and dry year that delivered powerful wines with abundant tannins. It has good ripeness, with 14.5% alcohol. This is slightly more powerful, concentrated and oaky than the 2016 I tasted next to it. It was a ripe and powerful year, and the wine has notes of black olives and a full-bodied palate with more tannins. It will keep for longer, but I'm not sure the tannins are not going to outlast the fruit. From the 37 barriques of this wine, they are releasing 1,500 bottles in 2025. It was bottled in May 2017.
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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Opaque ruby. Powerful, mineral-tinged red and dark berry preserve, potpourri and candied licorice scents, plus vanilla and baking spice nuances in the background. Sweet, seamless and expansive on the palate, offering densely packed black raspberry, blueberry, mocha and floral pastille flavors given lift and spine by a core of smoky minerality. Finishes extremely long and smooth, with slow-building tannins and lingering floral pastille and blue fruit preserve notes. Raised for 19 months in new French oak barrels.