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Bright purple. Powerful, deeply pitched aromas of cassis, candied blueberry, licorice pastille and violet oil, with suggestions of vanilla and smoky minerals adding complexity. Weighty and broad in the mouth, offering densely packed black and blue fruit and spicecake flavors and a strong note of candied flowers. Becomes spicier and livelier with air and finishes ridiculously long and sweet, with velvety tannins adding gentle grip before fading into the wine's plush dark fruit. This drop-dead sexy wine went through malolactic fermentation and was aged in new French oak barriques for two years.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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The 2012 Pesus has a lot of everything. In this vintage, the blend is 80% Tempranillo and 20% between Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from a selection of small plots of vineyards, located in the village of La Horra (Valdelayegua, Cañuelo, Carranguix and Bercial) and planted with very old vines. The élevage is always 18 months in brand new French oak barrels, which is less evident in this 2012, and still shows quite spicy and especially toast, but the toasty aromas should soon be absorbed with some time in the bottle. The technical data does not mention anymore the 200% new oak treatment (aging in a new barrel and then racking into another new barrel), so they might have stopped doing this. The palate is full-boded with great concentration, dry extract and intensity of flavors. It could do with a little more freshness. If only the élevage could respect more the quality of the fruit here, this wine could be truly spectacular. Still, it is a superb example of well-oaked, powerful Ribera. A Sumo wrestler. 2,000 bottles produced.
Tinto Fino, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon. Very old vines (1925) planted on calcareous-clay soils. Very concentrated and positive nose, complex and creamy showing vanilla, clove and dark fruit. Shocking wine, exaggerated fruit concentration, fine-grained massive tannins, generous in alcohol but keeping a harmonious mid palate. Muscular. Lingering pencil-lead sensation on the aftertaste. (FC)