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The Spring 2015 Live Auction
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Lot 2128
Estimate: $325
3 lightly scuffed labels, #0212-14, 0217, 0249, 0251-53.
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94WA
"The 2005 Valdegatiles is sourced from a single site on the estate with ungrafted vines over 100 years old. The wine was aged in French oak, 33% new, for 18 months. Notes of cedar, saddle leather, mineral, blackberry, and black cherry are enticing. This leads to a wine with huge structure but excellent balance. The wine is intense, layered, and very long. . .this is a case in which patience will be rewarded. In short, this is not a wine for those unable to delay gratification. This is a true vins de garde that will require much patience but in the end, it will be rewarded."
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Red
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"The 2005 Valdegatiles is sourced from a single site on the estate with ungrafted vines over 100 years old. The wine was aged in French oak, 33% new, for 18 months. Notes of cedar, saddle leather, mineral, blackberry, and black cherry are enticing. This leads to a wine with huge structure but excellent balance. The wine is intense, layered, and very long. . .this is a case in which patience will be rewarded. In short, this is not a wine for those unable to delay gratification. This is a true vins de garde that will require much patience but in the end, it will be rewarded."
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Spain has the largest area under vine of any country and a deep tradition of oak-aged reds. Tempranillo-based wines from Rioja and Ribera del Duero, alongside Priorat's Garnacha and Carinena, anchor its fine-wine reputation.
On Spain's high central plateau, Ribera del Duero makes powerful, concentrated Tempranillo (locally Tinto Fino). Wide day-night temperature swings yield deeply colored, structured and age-worthy reds.
Produces powerful, deeply colored Tempranillo from Spain's high plateau, prized for concentration and structure.