Goyo Garcia Viadero Ribera del Duero Finca El Peruco 2019

Goyo Garcia Viadero Ribera del Duero Finca El Peruco 2019

Goyo Garcia
$77.00

Grape: Tempranillo, Albillo
Vintage: 2019
Type: Red

This single-vineyard red wine comes from the Finca El Peruco parcel situated one-thousand meters above sea level in Ribera del Duero. Goyo García Viadero co-ferments eighty-five percent tempranillo with fifteen percent white albillo from old vines rooted in clay-calcareous soils. The winemaking utilizes spontaneous fermentation with native vineyard yeasts in a small foudre, bypassing modern temperature adjustments. The wine matures for three years in fourteen-year-old neutral oak barrels before bottling without added sulfur.

It displays a dark ruby color, releasing expressive aromas of ripe black cherry, fresh plum, and wild rosemary. The medium-bodied palate is deep and structured, balancing dense fruit flavors with a serious, fine-grained tannin profile. Savory notes of damp earth and cracked black pepper blend smoothly into the fruit core across the mid-palate. A clean, central thread of mineral acidity cuts through the volume, maintaining excellent freshness. It finishes completely dry and long, leaving a chalky trace.

Goyo Garcia Viadero comes from one of Ribera del Duero's long-established wine families, but his own project moves deliberately away from the region's modern reputation for heavy extraction, new oak and highly polished cellar work. The son of the founder of Bodegas Valduero, Goyo began his independent estate in 2003 with old family parcels around Gumiel del Mercado, working with Tinto Fino, Albillo and other local varieties in some of the highest, coolest sites of Ribera del Duero. His focus is on recovering the older voice of the region: centenarian vines, organic farming, native yeasts and patient work in a cold underground cellar. In the vineyard he avoids chemical inputs and pushes for freshness rather than overripeness; in the cellar he uses gentle handling, long fermentations, old barrels, no fining or filtering, and little to no sulfur. The wines are direct, savory and quietly radical for Ribera del Duero, shaped less by power than by altitude, limestone, clay and the memory of how the area tasted before modern fashion took over.