Abadia Retuerta - Pago Negralada 2019

James Suckling

A brooding profile with notes of espresso, walnuts and subtle dark fruit. The palate is medium- to full-bodied, built around a precise structure and firm, fine-grained tannins. There's depth and restraint here, suggesting plenty of potential. Better after 2026.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

2019 was a warm and dry year when the 2019 Pago Negralada, a single-vineyard Tempranillo from the lower part of the estate, a cooler place adequate for this short-cycle variety, showed good ripeness and a very good homogeneous vintage. The grapes fermented with their own isolated yeasts for 12 days, as extraction is quick, and the wine matured for 17 months in oak barrels, 66% of them new. The oak is neatly integrated, and the wine is medium to full-bodied and has a soft texture and the mellow mouthfeel from a warm and ripe vintage. 21,640 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2021.

In 2022, they obtained their single-vineyard appellation, Denominación de Origen Protegida Abadía Retuerta, that can be retroactive to previous vintages. Pago Negralada, Pago la Raya (white Le Domaine) and Viñedo Histórico will obtain organic certification, and in the next four years the whole of their 193 hectares of vineyards will obtain the certification too. Current production averages 600,000 bottles. They make serious, modern, ripe, generously oaked wines designed for the long haul.

Decanter World Wine Awards

Guia Peñin

Style ,varietally correct, creamy. Colour ,dark-red cherry. Aroma ,toasty, spicy, cocoa bean, ripe fruit, black fruit. Flavour ,flavourful, toasty, fine bitter notes. Style ,hot, smooth, smoky. Colour ,dark-red cherry, garnet rim. Aroma ,fruit preserve, aged wood nuances, tobacco, sweet spices. Flavour ,spicy, round tannins, long.