Bodegas Zifar Caballero Zifar Tempranillo DO Ribera del Duero, 2016

Deep purple in colour with ripe sweet plum fruits and vanilla, this is an incredibly youthful wine. It is soft and rich, dense in structure yet with fine tannins and flavours of blueberries and plums. It is concentrated with sweet succulent fruits that continue onto the finish which has a certain graininess: delicious to drink now, it certainly is not yet at its peak. Grapes came from a selection of their best vineyards, including two in Pesquera. This is the only wine in their range to be aged in 100 percent new oak – the concentrated fruit just laps it up – and it was matured for 15 months in French barrels.