Bodegas Cepa 21 Ribera del Duero 2014
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James Suckling
Slightly reductive nose of blackberries, cherries and some capsicum undertones. Full and rich with ripe and soft tannins that follow through to a long, salty finish. Warm alcohol notes.
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Wine Spectator
Plum and blackberry flavors mingle with coffee, tar and loamy earth in this solid red. Juicy acidity moderates the muscular tannins. Floral and spice details linger. Drink now through 2026.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2014 Cepa 21 matured in French barriques for one year before being bottled. It has plenty of toasty notes, aromas of smoke, sweet spices and a touch of graphite. It needs a little more time in bottle to absorb the oak, which is still quite noticeable in the flavors and the texture, too. It's a generously oaked Tempranillo in the house style destined for the fans of the style. 2014 is a powerful vintage and this wine feels very young.
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Bodegas Cepa21 was born in 2002 from the passion, heritage and know-how of the third generation of the Moro family. The vineyards are found in a northern orientation valley with a colder terroir from where the Family started planting vineyards.
Located in Castrillo de Duero, a village of Valladolid in the heart of the Ribera del Duero region, the area is known as the “The Golden Mile” because of Its Terroir combining extreme climate conditions, varied soils and orography of the valley.
The Winery has 50 hectares grafted with the pure clone of Tempranillo (Tinto Fino) from the oldest vineyards that the Family planted.
The Family aims to produce wines that respect the terroir and the variety, that are characterized by the intensity and the structure, but also by the freshness and finesse. There is a more modern focus on winemaking, showing more the fruit characteristics. To do this, each wine comes from different vineyards, where Hito is produced out of vineyards in the foothills of the valley, at 2,400 feet, Cepa 21 from vineyards in the middle of the slope, at 2,700 feet. Malabrigo and Horcajo come from two vineyards in the high plateau at 3,000 feet. The wines are vinified according to the parcels to show the terroir potential.