The 2013 Pícaro Clarete is clearly not a rosé (but it's pink-colored); it's a wine produced with a blend of red and white grapes, and aged in barrel for some 16 months following the profile of the traditional wines of Aranda de Duero from yesteryear. Even if it's hard to believe, this wine is still too young; I had the chance to taste the 2012 and it now smells and tastes like a white wine (I showed it blind to a friend and he said it was a white), with incredible minerality. It still has some red fruit in the nose and it will develop greatly in bottle, and show its minerality that for now is only perceivable on the palate, where the acidity is lively and the finish is so tasty it turns almost salty. In the long run, this might surpass the 2012, but to drink today, I prefer the 2012. 5,000 were filled in May 2015.
Drinking Window: 2016 - 2020
Reviewer Name: Luis Gutiérrez
Review Date: 30th October 2015
Very pale orange-pink. Heady, mineral-tinged red berry, tangerine and floral scents show excellent clarity and a spicy topnote. Tangy and sharply focused on the palate, offering fresh strawberry and orange zest flavors and a hint of white pepper. Lithe and weightless wine with excellent finishing cut and floral persistence. The white and red grapes here are co-fermented in used French oak barrels, where the wine then ages for a year before being bottled.
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- Year 2013
- Colour Rose
- Country Spain
- Region Castilla y Leon
- Sub Region Ribera del Duero
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- Pack Size 12x75cl
- ABV 14.00°
- Drinking Window 2016 - 2020
- Drinking Recommendation Drink Up
- LWIN 132179120131200750
- Reviews (2)
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92+ Wine Advocate
The 2013 Pícaro Clarete is clearly not a rosé (but it's pink-colored); it's a wine produced with a blend of red and white grapes, and aged in barrel for some 16 months following the profile of the traditional wines of Aranda de Duero from yesteryear. Even if it's hard to believe, this wine is still too young; I had the chance to taste the 2012 and it now smells and tastes like a white wine (I showed it blind to a friend and he said it was a white), with incredible minerality. It still has some red fruit in the nose and it will develop greatly in bottle, and show its minerality that for now is only perceivable on the palate, where the acidity is lively and the finish is so tasty it turns almost salty. In the long run, this might surpass the 2012, but to drink today, I prefer the 2012. 5,000 were filled in May 2015.
Drinking Window: 2016 - 2020
Reviewer Name: Luis Gutiérrez
Review Date: 30th October 2015
91 Antonio Galloni - VinousVery pale orange-pink. Heady, mineral-tinged red berry, tangerine and floral scents show excellent clarity and a spicy topnote. Tangy and sharply focused on the palate, offering fresh strawberry and orange zest flavors and a hint of white pepper. Lithe and weightless wine with excellent finishing cut and floral persistence. The white and red grapes here are co-fermented in used French oak barrels, where the wine then ages for a year before being bottled.
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Ribera del Duero is fast becoming (if not already!) one of the top Spanish wine regions following Rioja and Priorat, home to icons like Vega Sicilia and Pingus. Dominio del Aguila has become the latest name to join the ranks, hardly surprising when wines from Dominio del Aguila are made by Jorge Monzon who had previously worked for none other than Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and Vega Sicilia. It certainly also helps that their fruit comes from “one of the most impressive collections of old vines in Ribera del Duero” (Luis Gutiérrez) and are fermented with indigenous yeasts. Dominio del Aguila is Pascual's own project in Ribera del Duero after collecting tiny parcels of old vines for 10 years. The freshness and purity of the estate’s wines captured the imaginations of the press, and they were widely proclaimed to be some of the most exciting new wines to be coming out of Spain.
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