2017 | Dominio del guila | Canta La Perdiz

Red Wine: 2017 | Dominio del guila | Canta La Perdiz

The grapes are hand-harvested and carefully sorted before undergoing fermentation with native yeasts in a combination of concrete and wooden vats.

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Producer: Dominio del guila

Ratings: WA | 97

Vintage: 2017

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14.5%

Varietal: Rare Red Blend

Country/Region: Spain, Ribera del Duero

The grapes are hand-harvested and carefully sorted before undergoing fermentation with native yeasts in a combination of concrete and wooden vats. The wine is then aged in a mix of new and used French oak barrels for an extended period, usually around 30 months, to develop complexity and integrate flavours.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: I also tasted the 2017 Canta la Perdiz from the low-yielding and warm year marked by spring frost. The Tempranillo field blend clusters fermented in concrete vats with natural yeasts after being foot trodden. The wine went through malolactic and 39 months of aging in oak barrels mostly French for 39 months. It has the perfume and approachability of the 2017s but there’s a lot more finesse here the quality of the tannins is superb and there’s great balance and freshness. Another 2017 that transcends the vintage. The label is different each vintage and in this different year it does have a surprising somewhat Ponsot-like label…1103 bottles and 10 magnums were filled in March 2021.

Producer Information

Dominio del guila is a wine estate and microbrewery based in the village of La Aguilera, in the Ribera del Duero wine region of northern central Spain. The winery was established by Jorge Monzn and Isabel Rodero. The pair make a range of wines, predominantly from the local staple Tinta del Pas (Tempranillo). Following enology studies in Bordeaux and Burgundy, along with stints at Domaine de la Romane-Conti and Vega-Sicilia, Monzon spent nine years winemaking at fellow Ribera del Duero mainstay Bodega Arzuaga-Navarro. Then, in 2010, Monzon and partner Rodero established Dominio del guila in the small village of La Aguilera. The pair make a small range of wines from 30 hectares (74 acres) of old vines around the village. Although Tempranillo is the most prevalent grape in the region, Dominio del guila blanco is made from old vine Albillo while the Picaro del guila Tinto and Clarete is a blend of Tempranillo, Garnacha, Bobal and Albillo (the latter is also known as Blanca del Pas). The Dominio del guila Reserva is a similar blend of varieties (with Tempranillo predominant) albeit from the oldest vines on the property. The top wine is the single-vineyard Canta La Perdiz (aged as a Gran Reserva): a blend of Tempranillo, Cariena, Brual, Bobal and Albillo. The bodega also produces a beer called Milagritos made partly from barley grown in the region and fermented with indigenous yeast.