Produced from purchased, old vine (60 year old vines with growing conditions managed by the winery) fruit and fruit from young estate vines. Alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in stainless
steel with a total of 10 days maceration on the skins. Aged in new, one and two year old, 60% French and 40% American oak for 8 months. Bottled without filtration or clarification.
The 2006 Neo Sentido is 100% Tinto Fino sourced from 60-year-old vines. It was aged in a mix of new and used French and American oak for eight months before bottling without filtration. The attractive nose exhibits cedar, spice box, tobacco, and black cherry leading to a ripe, nicely balanced wine with a bit of structure, spicy black fruit flavors, and good length. Drink it from 2010 to 2020. Issue 183, June ‘09
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar
90
Ruby-red. Intensely perfumed bouquet combines cherry, dark berries, tobacco and cured meat. Youthfully taut on entry, then suppler in the middle, offering bitter cherry and blackcurrant flavors and finishing with slow-building tannins. A lively note of cracked pepper adds energy to the juicy aftertaste of this very young and promising wine. Score: 90(+?) Issue 139, July/Aug '08
Wine Review Online
90
This is the entry-level offering of Ribera del Duero's premier "garage winery," which produces extraordinary wine under the "Neo" label and one of the best wines of Spain under the "Neo Punta Esencia" label. Although this bottling is third in a pecking order of three, it was clearly made with a deft hand from excellent material. Dark, dense and serious both in appearance and feel, it features delicious black cherry fruit that is concentrated but not chunky or over-ripe. Oak notes are well measured and subtle, lending notes of spice and smoke to the solid core of fruit. Impressive and very fairly priced, this is a wine to buy. Issue June 17, '08
San Francisco Chronicle
NA
Iron-like aromas and musky earth over ripe berry and cassia. Nicely textured tannins with plenty of zippy acidity, but there's dark fruit to balance. Plum skin on firm finish. With eight months in both new and previously used oak barrels this wine spends less time aging than its sibling. Three Stars (Excellent)
October 31, '08 Edition
