Dominio del Águila

About Dominio del Águila

Founded as recently as 2010, Bodegas Dominio del Águila is forging a new path through its incredible cuvées from the famous Ribera del Duero region in Spain. Famed, quite rightly, for its staggeringly rich, bold and uncompromising wines, this young estate is offering an altogether more elegant, restrained and highly terroir-focused interpretation of the region and its varietals. Judging by both the demand for its wines and the critical acclaim achieved in well under a decade, this is clearly an alternative of which oenophiles are more than welcome.

Situated in the village of La Aguilera, Dominio del Águila is the brainchild of Jorge Mónzon and partner Isabel Rodero. Collectors may be surprised that wine of such quality can be crafted by such a young winemaker from an estate very much in its infancy. It just so happens that Jorge boasts what may be the single most impressive CV of any young winemaker on Earth – his very first full-time viticultural position was at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti! Departing France for his native Spain, he worked at one of the most famous estates in the country, Vega-Sicilia.

Viniculture

It was whilst working at Bodegas Arzuaga-Navarro, however, that the ambitious vigneron came across a number of ancient vineyard parcels whose grapes were being sold to, and used in the prestige cuvées of, other wineries across the region. Seizing his moment, Jorge and Isabel snatched these plots up, mainly Tempranillo, some of which were over 100 years old.

Farmed fully biodynamically, terroir expression is extraordinarily important to the couple. “Our goal is to make pure and fine wines” says Jorge, and Dominio del Águila would certainly win the golden boot in this regard. Chief amongst their deeply covetable range is the breath-taking “Peñas Aladas” Gran Reserva. Sourced from some of the very oldest vines in La Aguilera on the eponymous hillside of Peñas Aladas, this is a unique and fascinating terroir within the region. Situated at a lofty 880 meters above sea-level, these vineyard plots are some three whole degrees Celsius cooler than the average temperature in the surrounding area. A cool climate site, in the context of Ribera del Duero, the terroir is conducive to long, slow fruit maturation giving complexity and power to the sublime grapes.

Year	Wine	Region	Format	Qty	Score	Price
Dominio del Aguila Albillo Vinas Viejas 2016 (6x75cl) HK$5,390.00
2016	Dominio del Aguila Albillo Vinas Viejas 2016 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (97) The white from Dominio del Águila is one of the first whites from the Ribera del Duero appellation, which just approved the category in September 2019. It's also one of the finest whites from the region (and from Spain), used by the appellation to present the new category of wines as an example of the aging potential of the style, which at this address was produced in 2012, 2014 and 2015 and until now sold as generic Vino de España. The fourth vintage bottled is this 2016 Blanco, which is insultingly young and backward, with incredible tension, 13% alcohol and a pH of 3.08, which is only achieved in cool vintages, and crafted as the best white Burgundies, as it's produced with the idea of a true vin de garde. This 2016 took almost two years to complete fermentation, because it ferments in oak barrels in a very cold cellar. This is the finest vintage, with citrus notes, hints of smoke and incredible tension and freshness in the palate. This has the tenderness of a baby and should have a slower development than any of the previous vintages. It was hand bottled—unfined and unfiltered after 32 months in barrel—into 4,855 bottles and 80 magnums in June 2019. These are wines that deserve being revisited a few years after their bottling... 1 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	97 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$5,390.00
Dominio del Aguila Albillo Vinas Viejas 2018 (6x75cl) HK$4,957.00
2018	Dominio del Aguila Albillo Vinas Viejas 2018 (6x75cl) Tim Atkin MW (97) Jorge Monzón and Isabel Rodero's Albillo Mayor is one of Spain's greatest whites. Think of it as a cross between a Jura Vin Jaune and a Viña Tondonia Blanco from Rioja in style. Nutty, salty yet produced without a veil of flor yeast, it's a subtly wooded delight, showing old vine concentration and the leesy, waxy, oxidative complexity that comes from a two-year fermentation without added sulphur. 2 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	2	97 (TA) Read Review/Description	HK$4,957.00
Dominio del Aguila Canta La Perdiz 2015 (1x150cl) HK$8,135.00
2015	Dominio del Aguila Canta La Perdiz 2015 (1x150cl) Wine Advocate (98) The scarcest and rarest of the reds is the single-vineyard 2015 Canta la Perdiz, produced with the field-blend grapes of one of the oldest vineyards in the village of La Aguilera, a plot at 890 meters in altitude that has sandy and limestone-rich soils that give the wine a specific texture reminiscent of chalk. It's planted with a field blend dominated by Tempranillo but with small percentages of many other grapes, and the aim is to be able to ferment them all together. The ripeness of 2015 allowed for all the different varieties to achieve good ripeness, and they were all included in the wine, which fermented with full clusters and indigenous yeasts. It was foot trodden, and the malolactic and slow and long aging was in French oak barrels and lasted 31 months. It's a wine of perfume and finesse, gentle and tender, attractive and showy, developing nice complexity in the glass, with a more Mediterranean profile, some fennel and aromatic herbs. It has a velvety texture with very fine tannins. It also has very good freshness and balance, and it finishes long and dry. 1,220 bottles and 24 magnums were filled in May 2018. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	1x150cl	1	98 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$8,135.00
Dominio del Aguila Canta La Perdiz 2015 (6x75cl) HK$16,285.00
2015	Dominio del Aguila Canta La Perdiz 2015 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (98) The scarcest and rarest of the reds is the single-vineyard 2015 Canta la Perdiz, produced with the field-blend grapes of one of the oldest vineyards in the village of La Aguilera, a plot at 890 meters in altitude that has sandy and limestone-rich soils that give the wine a specific texture reminiscent of chalk. It's planted with a field blend dominated by Tempranillo but with small percentages of many other grapes, and the aim is to be able to ferment them all together. The ripeness of 2015 allowed for all the different varieties to achieve good ripeness, and they were all included in the wine, which fermented with full clusters and indigenous yeasts. It was foot trodden, and the malolactic and slow and long aging was in French oak barrels and lasted 31 months. It's a wine of perfume and finesse, gentle and tender, attractive and showy, developing nice complexity in the glass, with a more Mediterranean profile, some fennel and aromatic herbs. It has a velvety texture with very fine tannins. It also has very good freshness and balance, and it finishes long and dry. 1,220 bottles and 24 magnums were filled in May 2018. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	98 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$16,285.00
Dominio del Aguila Canta La Perdiz 2016 (6x75cl) HK$17,199.00
2016	Dominio del Aguila Canta La Perdiz 2016 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (100) I was really looking forward to the single-vineyard red 2016 Canta la Perdiz, their rarest and finest bottling. It comes from a one of the oldest plots in the village of La Aguilera found at 890 meters in altitude on sand and limestone soils that give it a special personality and a chalky texture. The full clusters fermented with indigenous yeasts in concrete vats, and the wine went through seven months of a slow malolactic fermentation in oak barrels, where it completed an élevage of 31 months. The wine delivers what I was expecting, incredible finesse and elegance while filling your mouth. It is nuanced, perfumed and with a crystalline personality, with light and energy. It has very fine, chalky tannins that give it a velvety texture. It has incredible length. It's a world-class red that should develop for a very long time in bottle but also drink well throughout its life, even as young as now. This is one of the finest wines they have produced at this domaine, among the greatest in Ribera del Duero, fine, crystalline and full of Ribera character, serious but with a hedonist side. 1,789 bottles and 50 magnums were filled in May 2019. 1 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	100 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$17,199.00
Dominio del Aguila Canta La Perdiz 2017 (6x75cl) HK$11,795.00
2017	Dominio del Aguila Canta La Perdiz 2017 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (97) I also tasted the 2017 Canta la Perdiz from the low-yielding and warm year marked by spring frost. The Tempranillo field blend clusters fermented in concrete vats with natural yeasts after being foot trodden. The wine went through malolactic and 39 months of aging in oak barrels, mostly French, for 39 months. It has the perfume and approachability of the 2017s, but there's a lot more finesse here, the quality of the tannins is superb, and there's great balance and freshness. Another 2017 that transcends the vintage. The label is different each vintage, and in this different year, it does have a surprising, somewhat Ponsot-like label...1,103 bottles and 10 magnums were filled in March 2021. Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 3-4 months	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	97 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$11,795.00
Dominio del Aguila Canta La Perdiz 2018 (6x75cl) HK$12,723.00
2018	Dominio del Aguila Canta La Perdiz 2018 (6x75cl) Tim Atkin MW (97) "Our finest plot" is how Jorge Monzón describes this west and southwest-facing parcel at 890 metres. Cultivated biodynamically, it's one of the oldest vineyards in La Aguilera. Fermented with 100% whole bunches, it's a delicate, refined, layered field blend of Tinto Fino and five other varieties. Taut and focused, with remarkable delicacy, chalky intensity and flavours of citrus, red cherry, raspberry and red plum. Long, spicy and hauntingly ethereal. 1 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	97 (TA) Read Review/Description	HK$12,723.00
Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2010 (1x75cl) HK$4,200.00
2010	Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2010 (1x75cl) Wine Advocate (96) The great news here is that their first Gran Reserva is about to be released under the name 2010 Peñas Aladas Gran Reserva. It is sourced from small plots of vineyards in a quarter of the Aguilera vineyards, known locally as Peñas Aladas (winged stones?), although the spelling might vary according to the locals you might talk to, where they own some very old vineyards that are surrounded by pine tree forests. The old vineyards have a mixture of grapes, always dominated by Tempranillo, but with others (Cariñena, Bruñal, Bobal, Albillo...) that make up around 15% of the volume of the wine. The full clusters fermented in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and the wine aged slowly for 51 months in oak in a very cold cave where the aging is extremely slow, as the low temperatures (the ideal 12 C all year round) make wines evolve at a glacial pace. The wine was raised in barrel until they felt the tannins had achieved the velvety texture they were looking for. The nose is incredibly perfumed with notes of violets, wild berries and plenty of Asian spices; it is quite heady, properly ripe (without excess), complex and very showy. The palate is velvety but with chalky tannins that cling to your teeth and make it very tasty with an austere minerality. There is great freshness and gobsmacking balance. Believe it or not, this is still a baby that should have a very long life in bottle. 2010 was definitively a great vintage and this wine shows it. Simply superb, fine, elegant Ribera del Duero for the future; I'd love to revisit this in 2023! 1,100 bottles produced. The price has not yet been set. There might also be a small quantity of another single vineyard, Cantalaperdiz, bottled and sold separately in the future. Stay tuned. 1 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	Castilla y Leon	1x75cl	1	96 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$4,200.00
Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2012 (1x150cl) HK$4,200.00
2012	Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2012 (1x150cl) Decanter (98) Probably the purest and most refined wine in the whole Ribera del Duero region, a jewel of balance and subtlety with a wonderfully persistent delicacy. The newest icon in Spain. 1 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	Castilla y Leon	1x150cl	1	98 (DC) Read Review/Description	HK$4,200.00
Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2012 (6x75cl) HK$8,485.00
2012	Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2012 (6x75cl) Decanter (98) Probably the purest and most refined wine in the whole Ribera del Duero region, a jewel of balance and subtlety with a wonderfully persistent delicacy. The newest icon in Spain. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	98 (DC) Read Review/Description	HK$8,485.00
Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2013 (6x75cl) HK$19,625.00
2013	Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2013 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (99) Their Gran Reserva is released a good six or seven years after the harvest, and they consider the 2013 Peñas Aladas Gran Reserva still too young. It comes from small plots of some of the oldest vineyards in the village of La Aguilera, in the zone known as Peñas Aladas in a cooler place at 870 to 890 meters in altitude. The topsoils are sandy, and then there is clay and a limestone-and-marl mother rock that they consider perfect. The dominant grape is Tempranillo, but in these old plots, there is always a mix of varieties—Albillo, Bruñal, Garnacha, Bobal, Cariñena—and the aim is to ferment them all together (ripeness permitting). This fermented with full clusters that were foot trodden, and malolactic was in barrel and extremely slow (19 months). It matured in barrel for five years. It is an incredibly backward wine, young and undeveloped, with tons of gunpowder, earthy and mineral, diesel-like, complex and with a magnetic attraction that makes you go back over and over again. It has pungent and pristine flavors, with amazing precision and symmetry, like laser cut, long, with very fine tannins and a supple, almost salty finish. This wine should age forever in bottle. This wine is just magic. 1,671 bottles and 69 magnums were filled in September 2018. The initial 2010 is now glorious, but I agree, still young... In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	99 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$19,625.00
Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2014 (1x300cl) HK$8,485.00
2014	Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2014 (1x300cl) Wine Advocate (96) 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. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	1x300cl	1	96 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$8,485.00
Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2014 (1x500cl) HK$10,000.00
2014	Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2014 (1x500cl) Wine Advocate (96) 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. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	1x500cl	1	96 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$10,000.00
Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2014 (6x75cl) HK$8,060.00
2014	Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2014 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (96) 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. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	2	96 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$8,060.00
Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2015 (6x75cl) HK$10,180.00
2015	Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2015 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (98) Their Gran Reserva style red 2015 Peñas Aladas Gran Reserva had a very long aging in barrel, a total of 54 months, including six months of malolactic fermentation. This comes from a myriad of small plots of some of the oldest vines in the village of La Aguilera in the same zone that names the wine, at 870 to 890 meters in altitude. The valley receives very cold winds from the Duero River, and the vineyards are surrounded by junipers, pines and oak trees, which makes it up to three degrees Celsius lower than the rest of the village, one of the coldest places in the whole of Ribera del Duero. The soils have a layer of sand that is gradually mixed with clay until around one meter deep, and then there's a layer of marl and limestone, a textbook soil for the vine. 2015 was a powerful vintage, and there was some frost that also delivered a little more concentration. The wine has an old Ribera del Duero style, with some rusticity and lots of power, energy and concentration but with great balance. It has plenty of fine tannins and lots of chalkiness. This should be very long lived. 2,223 bottles and 41 magnums were hand bottled unfiltered and unfined in May 2020. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	98 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$10,180.00
Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2016 (6x75cl) HK$9,420.00
2016	Dominio del Aguila Penas Aladas Gran Reserva 2016 (6x75cl) Tim Atkin MW (96) Peñas Aladas is one of the coolest spots in La Aguilera and can struggle in frost-affected years like 2016. Production of the resulting wine is small at only 1,500 bottles, but this is consistently among the region's best wines. Aged for 54 months in mostly older barrels, it’s a whole bunch-fermented cuvée of Tinto Fino with 5% of other white and red grapes. Chalky, chiselled and pithy with sinewy tannins and impressive depth. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	96 (TA) Read Review/Description	HK$9,420.00
Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2011 (6x75cl) HK$4,502.00
2011	Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2011 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (94) The 2011 Reserva is produced from their cooler vineyards grown at altitudes of 800-900 meters, from an assortment of small plots planted before the 1930s. The Tempranillo is mixed with other grapes totaling almost 10% in this vintage, half of it white Albillo and a significant amount of Bobal among others. They selected the grapes from the plots they thought would provide more freshness, especially in a warm year like 2011. The full-clusters fermented in open stainless steel pools where they are foot-trodden. The wine is transferred to barriques and put in the cold cellars where they age slowly and go through malolactic the following spring. This is a serious wine where the aromas are subtle and more soil-driven and austere, slowly revealing notes of violets and damson cherries with great depth. The palate is medium-bodied, with refined, silky and fine-grained tannins and a superb sensation of harmony. This is really outstanding for a year such as 2011. The 4,000 bottles produced were filled in May 2014. Drink 2015-2020. 1 In Stock - Immediate Delivery	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	94 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$4,502.00
Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2014 (6x75cl) HK$3,470.00
2014	Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2014 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (96) The 2014 Reserva is the winery's flagship wine, a wine produced to showcase the vineyards from the village La Aguilera next to Aranda de Duero in the province of Burgos. It's produced with the field blend dominated by Tempranillo from old vineyards in different parts of the village picked and fermented together. The full clusters were foot trodden and fermented in concrete vats with indigenous yeasts, and malolactic was very slow (it took eight months in 2014!) in oak vats. The élevage was extended to 31 months in French oak barrels of different sizes and ages. The wine has an herbal twist that provides freshness, and the oak feels very integrated. It has a magical perfume, in a great classical Ribera del Duero, with more body and structure; it has almost the same freshness as the 2013 but with more depth, compensated by complexity. It opens up nicely in the glass. It should age for a very long time in bottle, but it's already approachable. 9,850 bottles and 167 magnums were filled in May 2017. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	96 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$3,470.00
Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2015 (1x500cl) HK$4,905.00
2015	Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2015 (1x500cl) Jeb Dunnuck (95) The 2015 Reserva checks in a Tempranillo-dominated red with 15% comprising a field blend of Garnacha, Bobal, and Albillo, all aged 35 months in barrel. Gorgeous blueberries, smoked blackberries, roasted herbs, chocolate, lead pencil, and graphite notes dominate the bouquet, and it's medium to full-bodied, with a concentrated, powerful texture, lots of tannins, and a great finish. It certainly shows the warmer style of the vintage in its texture and tannins, yet it stays balanced and offers notable freshness as well as a great finish. It has another decade of prime drinking. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	1x500cl	1	95 (JD) Read Review/Description	HK$4,905.00
Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2015 (6x75cl) HK$3,590.00
2015	Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2015 (6x75cl) Jeb Dunnuck (95) The 2015 Reserva checks in a Tempranillo-dominated red with 15% comprising a field blend of Garnacha, Bobal, and Albillo, all aged 35 months in barrel. Gorgeous blueberries, smoked blackberries, roasted herbs, chocolate, lead pencil, and graphite notes dominate the bouquet, and it's medium to full-bodied, with a concentrated, powerful texture, lots of tannins, and a great finish. It certainly shows the warmer style of the vintage in its texture and tannins, yet it stays balanced and offers notable freshness as well as a great finish. It has another decade of prime drinking. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	95 (JD) Read Review/Description	HK$3,590.00
Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2016 (6x75cl) HK$3,395.00
2016	Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2016 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (97) Quite different from the 2015 was the 2016 Reserva, a red from a cooler year with good yields, so they were able to increase production of this wine over twofold and increase the quality! It took some seven months to complete fermentation, and the élevage in barrel lasted some 29 months. It has an incredible nose, violets and something musky, intriguing, complex and nuanced, mysterious and difficult to define, with some notes reminiscent of soy sauce. The palate is seamless and with terrific balance, a silky texture and very fine but chalky tannins. This is an amazing Ribera del Duero. 18,834 bottles and 519 magnums produced. It was bottled in April 2019. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	97 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$3,395.00
Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2017 (6x75cl) HK$3,960.00
2017	Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2017 (6x75cl) Tim Atkin MW (96) Produced in what Jorge Monzón calls the "tragic", frost-hit 2017 vintage, when yields were down 85%, this shows that, in the right hands, what survived was often very good indeed. Marrying Tinto Fino with 5% Monastrell and 2% Albillo Mayor, all of it aged in old wood, this is herbal, chalky and intense, with stem ginger and wild strawberry flavours, fine tannins and impressive length. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	1	96 (TA) Read Review/Description	HK$3,960.00
Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2018 (1x150cl) HK$1,500.00
2018	Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2018 (1x150cl) Wine Advocate (97) 2017 was a low-yielding year, so I also tasted the 2018 Reserva, their flagship red wine that wants to be a representation of the village of La Aguilera—fine, serious and elegant. It's 95% Tempranillo with the remaining grapes found interplanted in their oldest vineyards at an average of 880 meters in altitude on limestone, clay and sandy soils. All the clusters ferment together with indigenous yeasts in concrete, where they are foot trodden, and malolactic was carried out very slowly (11 months) in oak barrels where the wine matured for a total of 27 months. It has a somewhat shy nose but is very elegant. The wine was recently bottled, and that can make it a little closed and subtle, and it clearly improves with air as it sits in the glass. It's still young, and the palate reveals lots of energy; the flavors are very pure and the wine precise and delineated. The tannins are very fine and provide for a chalky texture and an almost salty twist in the finish. This is very in line with the 2016. 15,250 bottle and 101 magnums produced. It was bottled in February 2021. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	1x150cl	2	97 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$1,500.00
Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2018 (6x75cl) HK$3,020.00
2018	Dominio del Aguila Ribera del Duero Reserva 2018 (6x75cl) Wine Advocate (97) 2017 was a low-yielding year, so I also tasted the 2018 Reserva, their flagship red wine that wants to be a representation of the village of La Aguilera—fine, serious and elegant. It's 95% Tempranillo with the remaining grapes found interplanted in their oldest vineyards at an average of 880 meters in altitude on limestone, clay and sandy soils. All the clusters ferment together with indigenous yeasts in concrete, where they are foot trodden, and malolactic was carried out very slowly (11 months) in oak barrels where the wine matured for a total of 27 months. It has a somewhat shy nose but is very elegant. The wine was recently bottled, and that can make it a little closed and subtle, and it clearly improves with air as it sits in the glass. It's still young, and the palate reveals lots of energy; the flavors are very pure and the wine precise and delineated. The tannins are very fine and provide for a chalky texture and an almost salty twist in the finish. This is very in line with the 2016. 15,250 bottle and 101 magnums produced. It was bottled in February 2021. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x75cl	2	97 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$3,020.00
Picaro del Aguila Clarete Rose 2020 (12x75cl) HK$4,015.00
2020	Picaro del Aguila Clarete Rose 2020 (12x75cl) In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	12x75cl	1	-	HK$4,015.00
Picaro del Aguila Tinto 2016 (6x150cl) HK$3,900.00
2016	Picaro del Aguila Tinto 2016 (6x150cl) Wine Advocate (93+) The youngest of the released wines I tasted is a red—the 2016 Pícaro del Águila Tinto. It is from what they consider to be one of the best and freshest vintages in recent times. This is produced with the vines from the warmer parts of La Aguilera, a cold place to start with (and in a cooler year). The old vines are planted with a mix that is dominated by Tempranillo but also contains some 5% other grapes. All the grapes are picked and fermented together with full clusters and natural yeasts in concrete and stainless steel vats. It matured in oak barrels for 13 months. This is fragrant, expressive, open, aromatic and really attractive. The palate is really balanced, with great freshness, fine tannins and a very pleasant mouthfeel—supple, balanced and with great depth. This is the best version of this bottling so far, and it seems like 2016 could be a great overall vintage, based on some other wines I sampled from cask (many of them have an extended élevage). 21,550 bottles and 624 magnums were filled unfiltered and unfined in November 2017. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x150cl	1	93+ (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$3,900.00
Picaro del Aguila Tinto 2017 (6x150cl) HK$3,600.00
2017	Picaro del Aguila Tinto 2017 (6x150cl) Wine Advocate (93) 2017 was an unusually short crop as a result of terrible frost in April 2017, when thermometers reached -10 degrees Celsius in some places. The 2017 Pícaro del Águila Tinto, their entry-level and most approachable red, was seriously affected, of course. They lost some 60% of the volume, but the wine is incredible for the condition of the year. It feels a little more mysterious, not as expressive or open, a bit reductive perhaps, but the aromas are clean and don't show any excess ripeness. They did an amazing job eliminating all the raisins that didn't make it into the fermentation vat, and the extra workload has clearly paid off. The wine has some grip and fine, chalky tannins. 17,025 bottles and 487 magnums produced. It was bottled unfiltered and unfined and with just a little sulfur added in October 2018 after 12 months in oak barrels. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	6x150cl	1	93 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$3,600.00
Picaro del Aguila Tinto 2018 (12x75cl) HK$2,530.00
2018	Picaro del Aguila Tinto 2018 (12x75cl) Wine Advocate (94) I tasted two vintages of the entry-level red, of which the young 2018 Pícaro del Águila Tinto had just been bottled and should be released soon. This is their most approachable red, and it has the depth, concentration and nuance of the best wines from many wineries. It's produced in a more jovial style, but the wine comes from old vines that always have a field blend with small percentages of whatever grapes that are all fermented together, and these vines always produce a serious and deep wine. In 2018, it matured in French oak barrels for 11 months. This is very young and tender, expressive and aromatic, very much in line with the 2016. It has lots of energy and power, more than you might think, and it's serious. It's drinkable now, but it should get even better with some time in bottle. 44,680 bottles and 787 magnums were filled in September 2019. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	12x75cl	2	94 (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$2,530.00
Picaro del Aguila Tinto 2019 (12x75cl) HK$2,680.00
2019	Picaro del Aguila Tinto 2019 (12x75cl) Wine Advocate (94+) The youngest of the reds I tasted, the 2019 Pícaro del Águila Tinto is their most approachable red and is still serious, vibrant and aromatic with great length and still has good aging potential. They use the grapes from the warmest vineyards they have in the village of La Aguilera, form the northern part closer to La Horra, mostly Tempranillo but with some 5% of other varieties (red and white) interplanted in the old vineyards, fermented together with full clusters and indigenous yeasts and matured in French oak barrels for 15 months. Like the 2019 Clarete, this is young and tender and has more tension than I expected for a warmer year. It has less oak than previous years (only 10% or 15% new barrels), and the wine feels better balanced and is floral and aromatic. It's medium-bodied with a very fine texture, a pretty wine that drinks very well and doesn't reflect a warm year at all, as it has incredible freshness. A great Pícaro. They produced 69,852 bottles and 850 magnums, a notable increase in volume... while they increase the quality! It was bottled in February 2021. Estimated Arrival to United Kingdom: 3-4 months	Castilla y Leon	12x75cl	1	94+ (WA) Read Review/Description	HK$2,680.00
Picaro del Aguila Tinto 2020 (12x75cl) HK$1,950.00
2020	Picaro del Aguila Tinto 2020 (12x75cl) Aguila's wines are artisanal winemaking at the extreme. They have 350 different plots spread around the village of La Aguilera, with some plots smaller than 3 metres squared, and the effort that is needed to manage these vines and harvest is monumental. All their wines are made in a 14th century cellar buried 10 metres below ground with so little space that no machinery will fit, meaning everything has to be done by hand, even for the value wines like Pícaro. The estate actually produce enough grapes that they could increase production but the capacity of the cellar means they can't, and they have to sell a lot of their excellent fruit. Both Pingus and Vega Sicilia, two of Spain's greatest and most in demand wineries, purchase grapes from Jorge - a true testament to their quality. Made from 80 to 120 year old vines at an altitude of 830 to 900 metres above sea level, Pícaro is named after Jorge's young son, meaning 'cheeky', 'rogue', and this wine is exactly that. It defies normal order, showing such incredibly high quality that it threatens to overtake far more expensive wines from more established producers. Although it could be described as their base red, it is base in name only, as it always has the "depth, concentration and nuance of the best wines from many wineries" in the eyes of the Wine Advocate's Luis Gutiérrez. The price has not caught up with the quality and wine lovers get excellent value for money considering the manpower that is required to make this wine. In Stock in United Kingdom	Castilla y Leon	12x75cl	1	- Read Review/Description	HK$1,950.00

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