AALTO PS RIBERA DEL DUERO 2006 750ML
Product price
$199.99
Description
98 Points! Wine Advocate
Offers up notes of pain grille, balsamic, crushed stone, floral notes, and wild black fruits. Exceptionally powerful, focused, and beautifully proportioned, this full-bodied wine is dense, rich, and structured for the long haul. Give this super-long, impressive effort a decade in the cellar and drink it from 2018 to 2040.
Product Details
| Category | High End Fine Wine |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Ribera del Duero |
| Varietal | Tempranillo |
| Producer | Bodegas Aalto |
| Vintage | 2006 |
| Size | 750 ml |
| Container | Bottle |
| Rater | Wine Advocate |
| Rating | 98 Points |
| Wine Style | Red |
Expert Reviews
A beautiful but enormous style of red wine with char, leather and saturated black fruit aromas. There's also some lemony oak that will shed itself with time. Overall, it's rich, delicious and a real fruit bomb with chocolate, vanilla, caramel, coffee and mocha, all of which are reflections of the oak aging it sees. PS stands for s seleccionados, and it's really an example of the new school in full session. Best 2013–2017 due to its heft and extraction.
The glass-staining 2006 Aalto PS was aged for 32 months in 70% new French oak. It emits a super-expressive aromatic array of pain grille, crushed stone, lavender, spice box, and blackberry. Firm and structured on the palate, it has a boatload of intense, succulent, spicy fruit, ripe tannin, and impeccable balance. Drink this lengthy, powerful effort from 2016 to 2036. In truth, aside from the $55 difference in price, there is not much separating the Aalto from the Aalto PS in the 2006 vintage. Bodegas y Vinedos Aalto is the estate of the renowned Mariano Garcia, former winemaker at Vega Sicilia.