Dominio Fournier Ribera del Duero

Dominio Fournier Ribera del Duero

Elegant fragrance with ripe black berry notes, which mix with the spicy and smoky scent of the oak barrels. A good glass that is powerful with a soft bouquet and well-developed tannins.

Scent: Elegant scent with notes of ripe black berries and spicy spices that mix with the smoky touch from the oak casks.
Taste: Soft and with well-developed tannins.

Serve with: Red meat or strong cheeses.

The wine:

Dominio Fournier Ribera del Duero is made from the Tinta del País grape, also known as Tempranillo, the grape that provides the backbone of this lovely wine. The grapes are harvested manually and each field separately. The grapes are also sorted by hand. Before alcoholic fermentation, the grapes are soaked with dry ice. This innovative process makes it possible to extract the sweetest and most aromatic tannins and thereby obtain wines with more colour, fullness, complexity and strength. After maceration, the grapes are lightly pressed and poured into stainless steel tanks and oak barrels, where they ferment with regular stirring, which softens the wine further. The wine is then poured into wooden barrels and undergoes a second fermentation, also with regular stirring. Before the final wine is blended, the wine ages for 12 months in 20% American and 80% French oak barrels.

Wine house:

The original vineyard was built in 1979, a few years before the appellation Ribera del Duero DO was created in 1982, but the oldest vineyards were planted as far back as 1946. Since 2002, the vineyard has been owned by O. Fournier, who has acquired several fields in area with a view to continuing the development of its wines and becoming one of the leading wineries in Ribera del Duero.

Dominio Forunier today consists of 105 hectares, of which 60 hectares are planted with vines. The main grape variety is Tinta del País, also known as Tempranillo. In addition, there is a small amount of Merlot grapes.

The soil in the area consists primarily of mineral-poor pebbles and sand with a layer of clay at a depth of 60-100 cm. The combination of pebbles and sand provides good drainage for the vineyards, and at the same time the clay layer ensures a certain humidity. All together, it helps to create grapes that have had to fight for nourishment, and therefore show great intensity and typicality. Here are wines with lots of power and quality down to the last drop.