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• mouton45 wrote: 92 points

  March 9, 2024 - Thie2005, almost 20 hears old, was a great pairing with grilled Australian lamb loin chops. Fully mature but nowhere close to being over the hill, the Pesquera was made by the late Alejandro Fernandez, whose wines along with Vega Sicilia have been credited for putting the Ribera de Duero region in northern Spain in the international spotlight.
  
  After nearly a two-hour decant, I smelled aromas of coffee and cedar in my glass. On the first sip, it tasted like sweet dark berry fruit. Very balanced and the tannins had softened a lot since the last 2005 I drank. Bottom line: I would be delighted to drink this again over the next 1-2 years -if I had any more in the cellar. Oh well .... on to the 2004s, a SPECTACULAR vintage in Spain,

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• Caruso wrote: 88 points

  January 8, 2023 - Ruby with almost no orange hue. Well, the complex scents and flavors of black fruits, forest floor, cedar and flowers are still there, but they lost in intensity in the last years. If not perfectly cellared since release, this should be drunk up in the near term, otherwise - 2025. 5/11/15/7. The best Pesqueras remain the ones from the early to the mid nineties. A sad thing.

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• Frijole wrote:

  September 4, 2022 - dark plum burgundy red, little clarity, brickish hue
  Nose: plum, cassis, tobacco, tar, leather, dust, chalk, touch anise, smoke, oak
  Pal: plum, cranberries, tobacco, tar, leather, cigar, dust, dust, touch anise, smoke, oak
  Feel: medium, savory, acidic
  Finish: medium
  T8 (could be a 9 w/ nice age elements)

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• Wine Canuck wrote: 90 points

  August 19, 2021 - [Tasted Blind] This wine pours medium ruby in the glass. The nose is expressive and somewhat mature showing plum, cassis, raw oak (not fully integrated), celery, and gravel. The palate is medium in acid and medium in tannin showing some oaky tannin and a touch of strawberry on the finish. I didn't detect any American oak so I expected mostly or all French oak, and the plum/cassis aspects combined with a touch of greenness of the profile had me guessing a modern leaning Bordeaux from a vintage like 2004 or 2006. After an initial wrong guess I began to wonder about Spanish Tempranillo (without American Oak) and truned out to be correct. I think this is quite different than the lovely Pesqueras I've had from the mid-90s, and is clearly in a period when they got a little more modern leaning with the very raw tasting oak.

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• maxima wrote: 89 points

  August 17, 2021 - Un peu fanné mais encore en vie.
  Tabac, feuilles, mures et cuir.
  Un peu de fruit, un peu de tertiaire
  et des tannins intégrés.
  Sur son plateau ou un peu passé.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Bodegas Alejandro Fernández
• Varietal Tempranillo
• Designation Tinto Pesquera
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Spain
• Region Castilla y León
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Ribera del Duero
• UPC Codes 737686020014, 8423339924014

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• In Cellars 810 (41%)
• Consumed 1,153 (59%)

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