Bodegas Reyes
Teofilo Reyes, now 77 years old, made his first wine in the Ribera del Duero in 1950. He has been in charge of winemaking at a number of the region co-ops and also put in a stint as winemaker at Protos. From 1974 through 1994 he made Pesquera with Alejandro Fernandez. Reyes knows where the skeletons are buried and he knows where to find the best old-vines tempranillo. In the first vintage (1994) under his own label, Reyes produced about 9,000 cases; since then annual production has risen to just over 20,000 cases. The Reyes family has recently bought and planted 30 hectares of vineyards, but the wines to date have been almost entirely from purchased fruit.x000D x000D x000D x000D x000D The bunches are destalked and lightly crushed, with the rubber rollers of the crusher open to the maximum so that the fermentation occurs with mostly whole berries. As soon as the fermentation has finished, Reyes uses a Marzola hydraulic vertical press that avoids crushing the seeds and pips in order to minimize raw tannins. ("This approach can take the place of lots of further maceration after the fermentation," notes Luis Reyes, who makes the wine with his father.) The wines are aged for about 14 months in American oak barrels, about one-third new. I tasted in the family's insulated warehouse-like facility on the outskirts of Penafiel-a structure Luis described as a "bodega kit."
From The Best of Rioja and Ribera del Duero (Nov 1999) by Stephen Tanzer
1997 Teofilo Reyes Ribera Del Duero
Color: Red
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