2009 Matallana
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Tasting notes
Tasted alongside the 2005 and 2006, you can see a leap in quality with the 2009 vintage – offering a fresher style and brighter fruit. The wine is still broader than the new iteration of the wine (from 2024), the tannins are still chunky yet ripe, the deep fruit complemented by horse sweat, barnyard and leather, with smoky, spicy tones on the long finish.
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Josh Raynolds, Vinous
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Deep ruby. Powerfully scented aromas of ripe cherry, cassis and blueberry, with sexy floral and incense flourishes building in the glass. Sweet and deeply concentrated, offering suave dark fruit liqueur and violet pastille flavors plus notes of vanilla, mocha and allspice. Shows real vivacity for its heft and power and finishes sweet, smoky and very long, with supple tannins building slowly. Drink this alluring wine now with some aeration or, better yet, hang onto it for at least another five years
About the producer
Matallana is Telmo Rodríguez’s Ribera del Duero project. The talented winemaker has long been forging a new face for Spanish wine, and has been working with his partner Pablo Eguzkiza to build up vines across Ribera del Duero since 1998. Today they work with 21.5 hectares to produce one wine.