Red
Convento San Francisco Selection Especial 2018
£55.95
Why Mark chose this
This is serious Ribera del Duero from sixty-five-year-old Tempranillo vines planted at 850 metres, and it shows. Only 3,622 bottles were made, aged 21 months in new French oak. It's a big, concentrated wine, but not a heavy or clumsy one. The altitude keeps freshness in the fruit, and the tannins are ripe and well-integrated. If you want to understand what Ribera can achieve at its upper end, this is the bottle. The price reflects that ambition, and it's worth it.
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Best for
- Special occasions
- Serious wine evenings
- Cellaring
- Steak nights
- Style
- Full-bodied and concentrated, with dark fruit, spice and well-integrated oak
- Food match
- A ribeye steak, roast lamb shoulder or slow-braised beef. Needs a proper meal.
- Drink
- Already showing very well, and will continue to develop for another five to eight years.
Tasting Notes
Made from two small parcels of Tempranillo vines with an average age of 65 years, situated at 850 metres above sea level on sand, gravel and red clay soils, here we see the incredible intensity and power for which Ribera del Duero is so renowned and arguably unrivalled. Following fermentation in stainless steel the wine was aged for 21 months in new medium-toast French barriques, bottled without clarification or filtration, 3,622 bottles in total.
- Country
- Spain
- Region
- Ribera del Duero
- Grape
- Tempranillo
- Vintage
- 2018
- ABV
- 15%
- Vol.
- 750ml