What it pairs with

  • Whole roasted lamb
    The wine's power demands the grandest Castilian occasion meats.
  • Game birds with berry reduction
    Gamey richness and dark berry sauce echo the wine's intense fruit and mineral core.
  • Aged Manchego Viejo
    Concentrated hard cheese is a worthy textural and flavour match.

History

El Picon is the Pago de los Capellanes prestige wine, first produced with the 2001 vintage from the estate's finest old Tinto Fino plot of the same name, aged in new French oak and released only in exceptional years.

  1. 2001 — El Picon first vintage produced from the named single-vineyard plot at Pedrosa de Duero

Facts

Producer
Pago de los Capellanes
Grapes
Tinto Fino (100%)
Classification
DO Ribera del Duero
Oak
22 months in new French oak barriques
ABV
14.5%
Price
€100-180 at retail
Drinking window
10-30 from vintage
First vintage
2001

Tags

cellar worthy cult wine dry full body high acid high tannin mood contemplative mood elegant occasion cellar occasion gift occasion special old vines old world pairs with aged cheese pairs with game pairs with red meat price fine single vineyard still red tinto fino
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