Penalba Herraiz Carravid, Ribera del Duero

Ripe, meaty aromas of black fruit and oak announce a well-made wine with nice balance between ripeness and structure. Its creamy and a bit thick on the palate, offset by hard tannins. It finishes with chocolaty oak and savory berry flavors. Drink this serious red through 2026.

Winery: Bodegas Penalba Herraiz
Appellation: Ribera del Duero
Average age of vines: 60 year old vines
Farming Methods: Organic - Non Certified
Maturation: Aged 18 months in 50% new French oak and 50% used, American and Hungarian oak
Soil: Sandy loam over calcareous clay
Varietal: Tempranillo
Vineyard Orientation: 850 meters
Vineyard Size: 9.27 hectares

Wine	Scores	Downloads	Reviews
Penalba Herraiz Carravid, Ribera del Duero 2016	93 Wine Advocate In this wine, a tight nose of black cherry with a touch of violets leads to flavors of blackberry jam, Chambord, clove, rose petal and mocha. Velvety tannins build in volume and then fade into a spicy finish.	Bottle Image Label Image Shelf Talker Tech Sheet
Penalba Herraiz Carravid, Ribera del Duero 2017	N/A	Bottle Image Label Image Shelf Talker Tech Sheet	N/A
Penalba Herraiz Carravid, Ribera del Duero 2021	91+ View from the Cellar The 2021 Carravid Tinto bottling from Bodegas Peñalba Herraiz does not include a small amount of Albillo in its cépages, as is the case with the estate’s Aptus bottling. Here, the wine is crafted from a blend of eighty-five percent Tempranillo and fifteen percent Garnacha. These vines are also farmed organically and the wine is raised for sixteen months French oak casks, with eighty percent of the barrels new oak. The wine comes in at 14.5 percent alcohol in this vintage and delivers a deep, complex and new oaky nose of black cherries, plums, chocolate, chalky soil tones, cigar wrapper, spice tones redolent of nutmeg and mace and plenty of smoky new oak. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused and complex, with a lovely core of fruit, good soil undertow, firm, chewy tannins and a long, well-balanced and gently oaky finish. There are some oak tannins to absorb here on the backend, but the wine has excellent depth of fruit and seems likely to eventually carry its new wood seamlessly and I would anticipate it will be a lovely drink once those tannins have started to soften up. The raw materials here are truly exemplary and I would love to see a lower percentage of new oak for the élevage of this bottling, as I would think that eighty percent “one wine casks” would give similar micro-oxygenation prior to bottling and an equally new oaky personality, without creating a waiting period for the new oak tannins to be fully absorbed by the wine. 2035-2065+.	Bottle Image Label Image Shelf Talker Tech Sheet