Pago el Almendro Evolet 2015 (750ml)

“Deep ruby. Ripe cherry, blueberry and a hint of vanilla on the perfumed nose. Smooth and open-knit, offering sweet dark fruit flavors and a hint of mocha. Fine-grained tannins sneak up slowly, adding shape to the long, smooth finish. Raised in used 500-liter French oak barrels. 2021- 2024.” 90 points Vinous; Josh Raynolds – February 2021 “The 2015 Evolet bottling from Aurelio Cabestrero is produced from twenty-five year-old tempranillo vines, planted in a chalky vineyard at a fairly high altitude for the region, reaching up to nine hundred meters above sea level. The 2015 vintage offers up a sappy young bouquet of black cherries, black plums, cigar smoke, dark chocolate violets and a touch of spicy oak (despite the wine being raised entirely in used casks). On the palate the wine is ripe and full-bodied, but nicely light on its feet for Ribera del Duero, due to the cooler nights at elevation. The finish is long, focused and nicely balanced, with fairly modest tannins and fine length a