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Bodegas Mauro

Mauro home base is now a beautiful old Castilian townhouse restored in the 1980s, on the town's main street next to a store selling dishwashers and other kitchen equipment. Mauro began in 1979 with about 400 cases of wine and now bottles nearly 12,000 in good years. Based on my tasting in September, quality is higher than ever under the full-time attention of Mariano Garcia who consulted here for years while he was winemaker at Vega Sicilia. Mauro owns 32 hectares of vines, which account for about 80% of its production. The vines are mostly tempranillo, but there's also some 60-year-old garnacha and some young syrah.x000D x000D x000D x000D Tudela de Duero lies just west of Ribera del Duero, but the harvest in this warmer area takes place about a week earlier. The grapes arrive at the winery in 25-kilogram boxes and are sorted on a table de trie The fruit is then destemmed and lightly pressed, and fermented for about 12 days in 10,000-liter tanks whose wider tops allow for punching down of the must, which is done in addition to pumping over. In some years there is a week or more of further maceration after the end of the primary fermentation. The crianza is aged in one-third new, one-third one-year-old and one-third two-year-old barrels, while the reserva(here labelled Vendimmia Seleccionada), which Garcia describes as more of a winemaker's wine, spends its first year in all new French oak, then is moved into used American barrels. Mauro's new special wine, Terreus, is aged for 12 to 16 months in new French and American oak. Based on the two vintages I sampled, it is one of the superstars of Spain.

From The Best of Rioja and Ribera del Duero (Nov 1999) by Stephen Tanzer

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1998 Terreus Paraje de Cueva Baja Vino de la Tierra de Castilla Y Leon

Color: Red

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