Jane Anson: 95 Punkte
"Ready to enjoy at five years old, smoothed out tannins, softly spiced plum, red pepper, savoury with freshly cut herbs and violet aromatics. Good momentum through the palate, touch of smoked oak without being overpowering. Jean-Claude Berrouet consultant working with owners Marcos and Carlos Yllera and winemaker Montxo Martinez. Winery at the meeting point of Duero valley, Cuco valley and Esgueva valley. Aged in French oak barrels and amphoras, 25% new oak." (09/2025)
The Drinks Business: 96 Punkte
"The fifth release of this wine. There’s a little less Tempranillo and a little more Merlot than in last year’s 2019 release and this is perhaps a little more ample in frame and a little more soft and relaxed in personality as a consequence, the dusty, earthy almost iron-inflected minerality more than ever present. It exudes, as ever, the same immediate sense of altitude – and the cool kind of precision that comes from that. But in the 2020 edition this is a little more closed aromatically at this very early stage, with fewer of the floral notes of the 2019. It’s also slow to engage and to unfold over the palate. But the effect is rather lovely, like watching the complexity of a work of art appear either brushstroke by brushstroke or even shade by shade. This is soft, gracious, elegant and beguiling with a visceral presence of wild herbal and heathery notes and sculpting but also beady, spherical and hence delicate tannins." - Colin Hay (09/2025)
