Pago de Carraovejas Ribera del Duero 2020

Ribera del Duero, Spain 

Wine Advocate 93 points! Guia Penin 93! Wine Enthusiast 93! Wine Spectator 92! 

Pago de Carraovejas Ribera del Duero is a beautiful Spanish red from one of Spain's most highly respected wine regions, Ribera del Duero. Pago de Carraovejas is origin. Starting with its first nine hectares, this project soon became a dream of becoming a benchmark wine cellar in the heart of the Ribera del Duero. It all began over three decades ago, when Pago de Carraovejas was founded in response to a dream by José María Ruiz to create a great wine in one of the areas that had the greatest potential at that time. 

“The 2020 Pago de Carraovejas was produced with a blend of 92% Tinto Fino (a.k.a. Tempranillo), 5% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Merlot. 2020 was a good vintage for them. They harvested earlier (but the wine still has 15% alcohol), all in small boxes and 3,000-kilogram containers, and they are also using 600-liter oak barrels and oak vats for the élevage. It has an expressive nose of ripe berries, sweet spices and some toast and is lush and creamy, with a soft texture. It's powerful in the house style, but there's balance and harmony. They produced some 800,000 bottles.”-Luis Gutierrez, Wine Advocate, 93 points! 

Pago de Carraovejas Ribera del Duero has been the flagship wine of this winery for over 30 years. The 2020 vintage was aged for 12 months in French and American oak barrels. Sustainably farmed, hand-harvested, and fermented with indigenous yeast. The wine offers beautiful balance and characteristic ripe black fruit and berry flavors, violet aromatics and subtle spice. It is long and rich on the finish. 

Enjoy Pago de Carraovejas Ribera del Duero over the next 8-10 years with roast lamb, pork, paella and aged cheeses.