Ribera del Duero – best reserve wines
Wednesday 5 February 2025
Ferran shreds the stereotype of Ribera del Duero as a warm-climate, homogeneous red, finding myriad styles that build on the region's varied elevations and winemaking talent. Above, harvest at Pago de los Capellanes. See also Ribera del Duero – the power of terroir.
For this tasting, we focused on wines characterised by a long ageing process. Some of them were labelled as Gran Reserva, others as Reserva and still others are labelled simply with the generic term ‘cosecha’, as the reserva mentions are considered old-fashioned and are in decline.
Regardless of the term used on the label, all the wines...
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