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2020 Viña de Amalio, Cillar de Silos, Ribera del Duero, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Tempranillo
Tim Atkin MW
93/100
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2020 Viña de Amalio, Cillar de Silos, Ribera del Duero, Spain

Description

Rich, dark, powerful fruit on the nose, deep berry fruits with hints of spicy oak, lifted and fine. Rich and full-bodied on the palate, masses of dark fruit, spicy oak, considerable acidity, and fine-grained tannins. A much bigger wine than many previous vintages and is clearly built for the long haul. 

Drink 2025 - 2035+

Chris Pollington, Senior Account Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd (January 2023)

More power on display from the Viña de Amalio than with the Flor de Silos, but not at the expense of outstanding balance and elegance—vibrant black fruit supported by red cherry and delicate, pure acidity.

From experience, I can say that this wine ages brilliantly. If you have already been collecting, the 2020 deserves a seat at the head of your vertical tasting table! This will grow to be one of the very best iterations of this terrific wine.

Charlie Leech, Account Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd (January 2023)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Alcohol % 14.5
Grape List Tempranillo
Body Medium Bodied
Property Cillar de Silos

Critics reviews

Tim Atkin MW 93/100
Named after Cillar de Silos' pater familias, La Viña de Amalio is made with grapes from the north-facing Carramonzón vineyard in Quintana del Pidio. Matured in 100% new French oak, it's a red that will appeal to Bordeaux lovers, with lots of coffee bean and cigar box on the nose, serious structure and density, good underlying focus and freshness and layers of sweet cassis and blackberry fruit.Drink 2024 - 2035Tim Atkin MW, timatkin.com
Drink 2024 - 2035
Tim Atkin MW, timatkin.com

About this wine

Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

A high quality red wine grape that is grown all over Spain except in the hot South - it is known as Tinto Fino in Ribera del Duero, Cencibel in La Mancha and Valdepenas and Ull de Llebre in Catalonia. Its spiritual home is in Rioja and Navarra where it constitutes around 70% of most red blends.

Cillar de Silos

If one recalls one’s history, one will remember that it was the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile that set Spain on its road to unity. This is a somewhat whimsical introduction to Bodegas Cillar de Silos, which is located in the heart of Castille, Ribera del Duero to be precise, but owned and run by the brothers and sister team of Oscár, Roberto and Amelia Aragón. They also manage the El Quintanal Estate in neighbouring wine region Rueda and are thus perfectly located for both red and white wine making, demonstrating all that is great about, respectively, Verdejo and Tempranillo as grape varieties. The Aragóns define the House Philosophy with the words ‘purity, fruit, low yields, long ageing and hand selection’. The wines are finely crafted but demonstrably Spanish, which is good news!

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