Niepoort Ladredo, Ribeira Sacra, Spain

尼波拉德雷多酒莊紅葡萄酒

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The 2018 Ladredo was produced with the grapes from one of the best vintages in recent times. I tasted the final blend just before it was bottled. It's floral and aromatic, with 13% alcohol and good ripeness. It fermented with 100% full clusters and matured in used 225-liter oak barrels (but starting in 2021 it will mature in a 1,000-liter Italian botti). It's still very young; even after a long élevage (14 months in barrel), the wine feels young and the tannins are still there, with the earthy rusticity of the Garnacha Tintorera. I've drunk older vintages of this wine recently, and they are aging magnificently. A Ribeira Sacra to keep. There will be some 1,200 bottles.

I tasted the 2014 Ladredo, which showed great clarity, clean and subtle. It's a bright ruby-colored red with an expressive nose of flowers and earth. The palate showed a bit young, with some fine-grained tannins. This fermented with full clusters in open oak vats with a long maceration and was kept in used 225-liter oak barrels for some 14 to 16 months. There are notes of violets and peach, with something musky and spicy, with elegant rusticity. The palate is juicy and very tasty with a dry finish. It has 1% less alcohol than the 2013; it was harvested earlier, and it shows. This should develop nicely in bottle. 1,200 bottles produced.

The 2012 Ladredo is produced by Niepoort from Douro/Porto in Portugal from a vineyards in Ribeira Sacra called Ladredo belonging to the Rodríguez family of Guímaro. It’s one vineyard planted after 1940 with mixed red varieties in the Amandi sub-zone, with a significant proportion of Garnacha Tintorera (around 30%) and the rest Mencía and some other small quantities of other grapes. 40% of the full clusters and the rest of the un-crushed grapes fermented in a 2,000-liter oak vat (the same one since the initial vintage of 2008) and aged in used barrels without racking. They harvest very early with the objective to have 12-12.5% alcohol. It has an incredible balsamic nose with notes of aromatic herbs, black pepper, blue fruit and some malt notes intermixed with flowers and a special meaty character. Temperature-wise 2012 was a normal vintage in Ribeira Sacra, and the wine is medium-bodied with very fine tannins and good acidity. It feels like a wine that is gaining precision and losing a little bit of its rusticity with each new vintage. 1,400 bottles produced.