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A POSITIVELY EXTRAORDINARY, NOT TO BE MISSED WINE.

Wine Enthusiast - 95 Points
Top Shelf Editors' Choice (11/15/08)

Robert Parker – 93+ Rating

"A worthy successor to the superb 2004, the 2005 Astrales is 100% Tinto Fino sourced from vines ranging in age from 30-85 years. The grapes were fermented with native yeasts and the wine was aged for 18 months in French and American oak, 30% new. Purple-colored, it exhibits an enticing perfume of toasty oak, pencil lead, mineral, blackberry, and licorice. Smooth-textured, layered, and intensely flavored, the wine is currently tightly wound but very well-balanced. It will need a minimum of 5-7 years to reveal its full potential. This lengthy effort will well reward those with patience (and youth) by providing pleasure through 2030."

Wine Enthusiast - 95 Points
Top Shelf Editors' Choice (11/15/08)

Robert Parker – 93+ Rating

(Product description)
 
UNIT SIZE: 750.00 ml
VARIETAL: Tinto Fino
VINTAGE: 2005
COUNTRY: Spain
REGION: Ribera del Duero

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Product Description:

Bodegas Los Astrales Ribera del Duero 2005

By: Wine Enthusiast

2005 AstralesTempranillo Blend,

Ribera del Duero
Score: 95  An Editors' Choice

This is a huge and impressive step up from the 2003 Astrales, which was fine but not at this level. Here we’re talking about color, bouquet, palate feel, intense flavors, finish, you name it. It’s pure, ultratasty, chocolaty, smooth and pleasurable. Astrales is the complete package and a wine to watch. — M.S. (11/15/2000)

 

By Robert Parker

2005 Los Astrales Astrales

A Tempranillo Dry  Red Table wine from Ribera Del Duero, Castilla Leon, Spain

Review by Jay Miller

Wine Advocate # 175 (Feb 2008)

Rating: 93+

Drink 2013 - 2030

A worthy successor to the superb 2004, the 2005 Astrales is 100% Tinto Fino sourced from vines ranging in age from 30-85 years. The grapes were fermented with native yeasts and the wine was aged for 18 months in French and American oak, 30% new. Purple-colored, it exhibits an enticing perfume of toasty oak, pencil lead, mineral, blackberry, and licorice. Smooth-textured, layered, and intensely flavored, the wine is currently tightly wound but very well-balanced. It will need a minimum of 5-7 years to reveal its full potential. This lengthy effort will well reward those with patience (and youth) by providing pleasure through 2030. Importer: Aurelio Cabestrero, Grapes of Spain, Lorton, VA; tel. (571) 642-0343

 

By Stephen Tanzer

2005 Bodegas Los Astrales Ribera del Duero

Winery: Bodegas Los Astrales
Style: Red Wine
Varietal: Tempranillo
Region: Ribera del Duero

By Josh Raynolds
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar , Jul/Aug 08

(100% tempranillo, aged in 80% French and 20% American oak barrels, one-third of them new) Inky, glass-staining purple. Deep black raspberry and candied cherry aromas, with suave Asian spice and floral notes gaining strength with aeration. Juicy red and dark berry flavors stain the palate, betraying no rough edges or excess weight. Gains sweetness and depth on the finish, which repeats the sweet dark fruit qualities. Very sexy stuff. 91 points

 

By grapesofspain.com

Astrales 2005

Region: Ribera del Duero D.O.

Winery: ASTRALES, BODEGAS LOS

Grapes: 100% Tinto Fino

Vintage: 2005

Color: Red

Of the thirty hectares planted, ten are actually used to form the backbone of the wine from eight different plots. The vines of tinto fino in these vineyards, which are grafted with their own clones by means of mass selection from other local vineyards, are aged between 30 and 85 years old. Vines are grown in vaso form with shorter trunks than in most of Ribera del Duero helping to shield the vines from the wind which contributes to the accumulation of polyphenols and sugars. No chemicals are used in the vineyard beyond sulphur and that only if absolutely necessary.

Native yeast, shorter rather than longer macerations, preferences for pumping over, keeping all the fruit and getting the highest bouquet intensity, gravity movement of the grape and avoiding a rough extraction of tannins guide the winemaking. The wine was aged 18 months in French (80%) and American (20%) oak barrels. The policy is to change 30% of the barrels every year.