Perez Pascuas Viña Pedrosa La Navilla 2009

The 2009 Vina Pedrosa La Navilla Reserva is a single seven hectare vineyard of 30-year-old vines from a plot around the winery. Cropped at 2 kilogram per vine it is aged in French oak barrels for 20 months (10 months new and 10 months used barrel). It has a tightly wound bouquet of red cherries, fresh strawberry and a touch of graphite that is very appealing, yet it would require some decanting to let it unfurl. The palate is medium-bodied with fine, tensile tannins. It has a very fine focus and symmetry, with a very fresh, raspberry and wild strawberry finish struck through with that graphite tincture that gives it a rigid backbone. It is what you might call a classic Ribera del Duero, and I suspect it will age very well. Drink [Till] 2022. Score - 93. (Neal Martin, erobertparker.com, Feb. 2013)