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The wine
- Colour
- Rosso
- Alcohol
- 15.5% vol
- Grape varieties
- 86% Tempranillo / Tinta Roriz / Ull de Llebre / Cencibel / Tinta del Pais ,14% Grenache/Garnacha/Cannonau
Critics' scores
- Robert Parker / Wine Advocate 96
The 2011 Contador is a compact, tight-knit wine, serious and backward that needs plenty of air. It's still a baby showing the typical aromas that only the very best barrels can give and that you only find in a very few top wines (and I'm thinking of Pingus here). However, the personality is quite different, akin to a young Nuits-St-Georges, with very fine tannins and subtle acidity. I feel the wine needs a couple of years in the bottle. Drink 2016-2022
The producer: Bodega Contador
We are excited to offer for the first time the wines from Bodega Contador, one of the most exciting and dynamic estates from Spain today. Owned and produced by Benjamin Romeo, long-time head winemaker at Artadi, the domaine exploded onto the Spanish wine scene in 2000, when his inaugural vintage of Contador was released, wowing Robert Parker and capturing 98 points. Since, he has been attracting worldwide media attention and many impressive scores - almost all in the mid- to high 90s (and beyond). We are currently offering three of his wines - all exceptional and delicious: La Cueva, a wine which combines elegance and power and is produced from free-run juice from multiple vineyard sites; La Viña De Andres Romeo, produced from a single vineyard site which is renowned for its intense, rich wines; and finally his pièce de resistance, Contador, a tour de force and the ultimate expression of his old vines and terroir. These incredible wines are some of Spain's greatest (limited production) bottles and well worth discovering.