El Regulatory Council of DO Ribera has brought together a group of leading professional experts for yet another year. This exceptional committee has been in charge of rating the vintage 2018 from Ribera del Duero. All with the aim of determining the quality of the wines made with the grape of the last harvest.
This year they have had a Exceptional Rating Committee. It has been made up of nine professionals from the world of sommelier and communication. Also influential personalities who work in direct contact with the consumer. As well as responsible for the selection wines in restaurants reference.
Members of that committee
The chosen people to qualify the 2018 vintage of Ribera del Duero they have trajectories that have been recognized with important awards.
Meritxell Fergueras: sommelier, journalist, international jury and university researcher. Blog author Wines & the City and head of purchases at the El Celler de Gelida wine bar.
Almudena Pool MW: winemaker. First Spanish woman Master of Wine.
Daniel Gonzalez: sommelier at Casa Gerardo **, in Prendes (Asturias). Chosen by Verema as the best restaurant in terms of wine selection and service.
Yolanda Esther Rojo and Juanjo Losada: from the Pablo Restaurant in León.
Sonia Prince by Galimberti: President of the Association of Women Lovers of Wine Culture - AMAVI.
Pilar Cavero: Best Sommelier in Spain 2013. Collaborator with different media, advisor and consultant.
gemma candle: sommelier at the Ritz Hotel and collaborator of different media.
Manuela romeralo: Director of the Quique Dacosta El Poblet *, Vuelve Carolina and Mercat Bar restaurants. National Gastronomy Award for Best Sommelier 2008 and International Gastronomy Award for Best Sommelier in 2010.
This morning, from 11.00 a.m., the sommeliers have carried out a tasting of ten representative wines from the Ribera del Duero. These have been previously selected during the past months by the Technical Department, after successive tastings of more than 300 references.
El Exceptional Committee has carried out an analysis of those wines. For all this they have used their knowledge and experience. They have been able to appreciate their qualities of each of them at the present time and their future potentiality. That they will have when they reach the consumer.
A unanimous decision
The score awarded by each sommelier has been entered in a sealed and signed envelope, which has been opened by the plenary at the ordinary meeting of Council. The decision has been unanimous, rating vintage 2018 from Ribera del Duero as VERY GOOD.
Enrique Pascual, president of the Regulatory Council, so it has been decreed:
Consequently, the Plenary accepts the score obtained by the Qualification Committee. For this reason, it is unanimously decided to grant the 2018 Harvest in the Ribera del Duero Denomination of Origin the rating of VERY GOOD
The wines of the vintage 2018 from Ribera del Duero
The first thing that surprises you about the wines of the harvest 2018 is the expressive and rich color gamut. These form a very attractive set from a visual point of view. The nose, although not yet developed, places us at this time in very frank wines with a great fruit component. In the mouth we find fresh wines, having achieved a greater Atlantic component than in other warmer campaigns.
These wines have a good acidity. All that set gives us a feeling of balance and freshness, as well as sensations fruit trees, always with a lasting finish in the tasting.
