Aalto Bodegas y Viñedos : Aalto 2022

Characteristics and tasting advice for Aalto 2022 from Aalto Bodegas Vinedos

Tasting

Colour
Beautiful purple colour.

Nose
The nose is fruity and subtly spicy.

Palate
A lively and elegant attack precedes a full and beautifully long palate.

A red wine from Castile-León imbued with elegance and freshness

The property

Mariano Garcia and Javier Zaccagnini founded Aalto Bodegas y Viñedos in 1999 with the ambition to produce complex, balanced Spanish wines with a unique personality. Over the vintages, Aalto Bodegas y Viñedos has become a benchmark among the essential producers of Ribera del Duero. With their richness and refinement, these wines are quickly recognised beyond borders, as evidenced by the ranking of the property among the 100 best wine estates in the world by the great French critics Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve.

The vineyard

With an area of 130 hectares, the Spanish vineyard of Aalto Bodegas y Viñedos owes its uniqueness to its mosaic of more than 200 plots located in 9 different municipalities. With their different altitudes and their own micro-climates, each plot requires individual monitoring in order to harvest at the optimal maturity date of the grapes. Rigorous attention is paid to this vineyard, which is managed without any herbicides or pesticides and whose vines are aged from 40 to 100 years.

The wine

Aalto 2022 from Aalto Bodegas Vinedos is a Ribera del Duero wine made from a rigorous selection of vines aged 40 to 80 years, located within the vineyards of nine different villages in the province of Burgos and Valladolid.

The vintage

The beginning of the year is marked by a mild and dry autumn, then offset by late frosts. If the rains in March alleviate the water deficit, the low temperatures delay the bud break before heat peaks spread from May to July.

Vinification and ageing

The ageing is for a period of 16 months in French and American oak barrels.

Blend

100% tempranillo (tinto fino).