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dominio aguila, ribera del duero, penas aladas gran reserva 2014
ROBERT PARKER'S WINE ADVOCATE
96

2014 dominio aguila, ribera del duero, penas aladas gran reserva

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Dominio Aguila is helping to bring Spanish wine to the international stage. Penas Aladas Gran Reserva ranks as one of the country's most popular wines. Luis Gutiérrez gave the 2013 vintage a 99-point rating, describing its "magnetic attraction that makes you go back over and over again."

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ROBERT PARKER'S WINE ADVOCATE
96

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The Gran Reserva from 2014 had also been bottled for over one year when I tasted the wines, so I included the 2014 Peñas Aladas Gran Reserva in this report, although the wine might take some time to reach the market. This is a rare wine, matured in oak barrels for 45 months and produced in limited quantities in a painfully slow process to create a wine with very high aging potential that, even when released some five or six years after the harvest, feels too young and a little raw. It feels a lot gentler and approachable than the 2013 I tasted next to it; it's more aromatic and expressive, complex and at the same time easy to understand. The palate is also approachable and tender, with very fine-grained tannins, when in reality, it's very powerful and tannic, but the balance is terrific. It should develop beautifully in bottle, and the Ribera character, which is there, should be even more evident with a little more time. 3,051 bottles and 43 magnums were filled unfined and unfiltered by hand in June 2018.