Description

Fidèle portrait de la propriété, Selección Especial maintient son style unique millésime après millésime. Issu d'une sélection des meilleurs raisins de chaque parcelle du domaine, il combine la richesse du Tempranillo, l'intensité de la Syrah et l’élégance du Cabernet Sauvignon. Le résultat est d'une telle harmonie qu’il ne laissera personne indifférent – et il suffit de regarder les évaluations exceptionnelles octroyées aux millésimes précédents par nos membres pour s'en persuader. 

Fiche technique

Le domaine
Abadía Retuerta
Type de vin
Red
Millésime
2016
Alcool
14.5% vol.
Cépage
75% Tempranillo, 12% Cabernet sauvignon, 9% Syrah, 3% Merlot, 1% Petit verdot
Origine
IGP Castilla y León

Accord mets et vin

Costillas de cerdo ibérico asado con salsa barbacoa

La textura sedosa del vino y su toque goloso armonizan con el potente sabor del costillar y el dulzor de la salsa.

L'avis des experts

Suckling:

This is a stunning Ribera that shows a plethora of finely judged mulberries, blackberries, oyster shell, rust, iron, citrus, vanilla, undergrowth and licorice. Full-bodied and powerful with muscular tannins, but a wealth of dark fruit. Long and chewy on the finish. Drink in 2025.

The Wine Advocate:

Selección Especial is Abadía Retuerta's reliable red blend produced in enough quantities to have good availability and with an approachable and easy-to-understand profile that reached great quality with the 2016 Selección Especial, from one of the best vintages in recent times in the region. It's 75% Tempranillo, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Syrah, 3% Merlot and 1% Petit Verdot, a blend that can change with the conditions of the year, as it's decided by tasting the wines. If in the past this wine was quite oaky, this 2016 feels quite integrated and balanced, ripe and medium-bodied, with a soft and tender palate, round tannins and moderate influence from the élevage of 13 months in French and American oak barrels. This comes from a cuvée of 1,675 barrels that produced wine to fill 453,000 bottles, 22,500 magnums and 1,100 double magnums. The quality is awesome for the volume produced. It was bottled between mid-May and early July 2018. - Luis Gutiérrez.