Pesquera Tinto Crianza, Ribera del Duero, Alejandro Fernández 2018
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Pesquera Tinto Crianza, Ribera del Duero, Alejandro Fernández 2018
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75cl ALC 14.5%
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From the vineyards of Alejandro Fernandez near to Vega Sicilia, this is a wine with almost cult status. After 18 months in oak it shows an intense nose with a richly textured palate and excellent layered structure.

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Spain, Spain, Galicia & NW Spain

Still Red

Tempranillo/Cencibel

100% Tempranillo

Full-bodied

Drink or Keep

2018

Chicken, Roast

14.5%

75cl

Vegetarian

Vegan

Alejandro Fernández

Reviews
Vintage guide

The wines of 2023 show great promise but will be in short supply, while those of 2022 a hot, dry year are excellent and concentrated. The 2021 vintage is very good after a warm dry season with wines showing good concentration and aromatics. A wet first half of the 2020 vintage meant a lot of work in the vineyard was needed but a better, more consistent second half resulted in some juicy young wines with those ageing in barrel looking very promising. A very good year, 2019 had warm dry conditions but yields were limited by a tricky flowering period. A cooler and wetter year than other recent vintages has endowed the wines of 2018 with greater freshness and lower alcohols. Across the country the wines are showing good aromatics, plenty of weight, and a juicy fresh character. Growers had a complex year in 2017 having to contend with frost, hail and drought. Yields are down as a result, but the picture overall is of good quality particularly in Galicia and the South, Penedès also performed well. The 2016 vintage was pretty good on the whole with Ribera del Duero, Rioja and Rueda having excellent results. 2015 was heralded as the best vintage across Spain in recent years, and particularly so in the north. 2014 saw some good wines made with a little rain in the second half of harvest and low yields. This came after the potentially great 2013 vintage which has given fresh, vibrant, robust wines.
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Alejandro Fernández

Pesquera wines are very much the fruit of one man – Alejandro Fernandez. Brought up and working in wine all his life, he struck out on his own in 1972, selecting the best grapes from his connections in Ribera del Duero and using his in-depth knowledge of the region. Ribera del Duero had ticked along, a wide plateau of free-draining soils where over centuries Tempranillo had ‘morphed’ into Tinto Fino – basically the same variety but with smaller, darker grapes on the bunch.

The wines were rustic in the most, but Alejandro, with an eye of the success of Vega Sicilia just down the road, had the courage to invest in raising the quality: he got in at the beginning. Within ten years his wines had caught the eye of American critic Robert Parker Jnr, who cemented their reputation by proclaiming Pesquera, “the Petrus of Spain!” He bought the first part of the Pesquera vineyard in 1989 which has since grown into a 200 hectare estate that faces south on slopes above the river Duero. The sand and gravel soils are poor and well-drained over a limestone and clay subsoil, and the vines trained low on espalier trellises to maximise the heat from the ground. The wines have class and breeding; there is power coupled with elegance, and that all important ability to age that Parker spotted years ago. Alejandro and his family have expanded, re-invigorating another Ribera del Duero bodega, Condado de Haza, to make a chunkier, complimentary style as well as investing in other regions in Spain. The Tinto Pesquera bodega along with Condado de Haza, El Vinculo and Dehesa La Granja, together form the Familia Fernandez Rivera.

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