2020 Aalto Ribera del Duero
94
Wine Advocate
Review Date: 01/2023The nose of the red 2020 Aalto comes blasting with tons of toasted oak, spice, smoke and more toast, ripe berries and a luxurious creaminess like the finest modern wines from the turn of the century. This is predictable but exactly what their customers are looking for, with ripe berries, generous oak and a velvety palate with volume, soft tannins and mellow acidity. It matured in French and American oak barrels for 18 months. Some things never change. (LG)
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94
Tim Atkin
Aalto is the most celebrated example of a pan-Ribera red, using grapes from nine different
villages in Burgos and Valladolid over a period of three weeks. The 2020 is typically rich,
dense and well-upholstered, with a stylish mix of one third new French and American oak,
some mocha sweetness, bright acidity and classic liquorice, tar and blackberry fruit intensity.
Will age well, too.
93
James Suckling
Review Date: 09/2022
Fine spice and vanilla to the blackberries, mussels, sandalwood, minerals, black walnuts and dark chocolate. Quite well-judged and balanced on the palate, showing a mid-palate that is about freshness, fruit and fluidity, together with tight, nicely grippy tannins. Juicy, chewy and long. Drinkable now, but better from 2024.
Product Details
Origin: Ribera del Duero, Spain
Type/Varietal: Tempranillo
SKU: #1680750