Bodegas Comenge

Familia Comenge pays tribute to the great ageing wines of the Ribera del Duero region. If the Tempranillo variety of this vineyard, Pago de los Ismas, is characterised by anything at all, it is its excellent capacity for ageing. The vineyard was planted in 1982, coinciding with the creation of the Ribera del Duero Designation of Origin. Its excellent location, a steep slope of clay and calcareous soil affords excellent ripening and quality for the grapes each year.

After 25 months in new and one-year-old barrels of French oak, the wine achieves its delicious texture, intensity, elegance and persistence. Tasting notes: Medium-high depth, black cherry in the glass with garnet highlights, bright and very clean. Intense and spicy on the nose. Prominence of liquorice, ripe red fruit, fennel, aromatic herbs and balsamic sensations.

The bouquet of this Tempranillo leaves hardly any room for hints of spices from the oak, caramel, vanilla, cocoa... The mouth is gentle and big, but not opulent, showing the great quality of its very fine and sweet tannins at all times. The nose is somewhat less fruity and more spicy; we again come across the ripe red fruit, but also vanilla, caramel, scrubland herbs and liquorice, adding complexity to the wine overall. The aftertaste is very long and silky, leaving a fresh sensation that makes the wine easy to drink.

Comenge el Origen 2019 is full of charm and flavour. It is a very elegant wine, big, long and persistent at the finish in the mouth, capable of showing all the charm and bigness of the Tempranillo variety. The grapes are picked by hand in small boxes. At the winery, the racemes and grapes are selected carefully also by hand, grape by grape. Fermentation with selected indigenous yeast in small stainless steel and concrete tanks. The wine is aged for 15 months in French oak barrels. Clarified and filtered just before bottling.

Tasting notes: Medium-high depth, black cherry in the glass with garnet highlights, bright and very clean. Explosive nose, very fruity. Noted for its intense acidic and balsamic red fruit: redcurrant, wild strawberry, hints of liquorice and aniseed. The mouth is fresh with a medium-high structure and pleasant texture.

The natural acidity adds a refreshing sensation that makes the wine easy to drink. The fruit is joined by notes of the ageing: vanilla, sweet spices (cinnamon, clove) and the balsamic sensation of liquorice, bringing positive complexity to the wine overall. The aftertaste is lasting and leaves a pleasant sensation on the palate.