Condado de Haza Ribera del Duero Alenza Tinto 1996

Selected late-harvest bunches from one of the greatest vintages in living memory, the stalks and stems left in the fermenting must to enhance the structure of this powerfully full-bodied yet elegant wine. Pure, concentrated crushed berries on the nose totally overwhelm the 27 months spent in French and American oak. Alenza is the culmination of Alejandros winemaking style, a modern interpretation of the densely tannic style of his first wines produced in Pesquera in the mid-1970s (named for ALEjandro and his wife, EsperanZA).