Ladredo 2017
£44.25 (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / North Ireland
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
A strong peppery and herbal strike in the 2017 Ladredo prompted me to uncork a second bottle, which I found to be exactly the same. This is the Ribeira Sacra from Niepoort that was produced and bottled at Guímaro. The Ladredo vineyard contains a high percentage of Garnacha Tintorera, surely 30%, interplanted with Mencía. The old vineyards always had a field blend, but it varied depending on the place. This fermented with 100% full clusters in oak vats with native yeasts and matured in 225-liter oak barrels for 12 months. The wine changes a lot in the glass, and it's always a wild and a little funky. In a warm year like 2017, they harvested very early and managed to keep 13% alcohol, and this has a more herbal rather than floral character, with a volatile touch. This wine has a good track record for ageability, and it often shows disjointed and weird when young. I kept the open bottle and followed it for three or four days to see how it developed and to get a hint of what the wine can do in bottle. After all, it's still a question mark. 1,200 bottles were filled in November 2019.
Features
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Alcohol
13.5%
Grapes
Serving
Between 16ºC and 18ºC
Winemaking
Aged for 11 months in oak barrels.
Shipping to North Ireland
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| Bottles | Price | Over £344.01 |
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| 1-6 | £11.09 | £5.55 (-£5.55) |
| 7-12 | £15.05 | £7.53 (-£7.53) |
| 13-18 | £21.07 | £10.54 (-£10.54) |
| 19-24 | £28.81 | £14.41 (-£14.41) |
| 25-30 | £33.45 | £16.73 (-£16.73) |
| 31-36 | £37.41 | £18.71 (-£18.71) |
| 37-42 | £45.15 | £22.58 (-£22.58) |
| 43-48 | £49.45 | £24.73 (-£24.73) |
| 49-54 | £55.86 | £27.93 (-£27.93) |
| 55-60 | £60.03 | £30.01 (-£30.01) |
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