2021 Dominio de Atauta, Ribera del Duero
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In the remote eastern reaches of Ribera del Duero, where the badlands of Soria meet the sky at 3,300 feet, lies a four square-kilometer, forgotten valley. Atauta was declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 2017, but the Spanish government was simply acknowledging what nature had already ordained: this is sacred ground for Tempranillo.
The numbers tell a staggering story. Of the 227 hectares of pre-1900 vines in all of Ribera del Duero, 120 are in Soria. Dominio de Atauta controls 85% of the pre-phylloxera vines in the Atauta Valley—40 hectares split into 600 tiny plots, each with its own microclimate, its own ancient vines, its own story.
These vines are 130-160+ years old, planted when phylloxera was ravaging Europe's vineyards. They survived because phylloxera can't live in Atauta's sandy soils. Ungrafted, gobelet-trained, yielding barely enough fruit to make wine—they weren’t ripped out because their fruit was so precious.
The winery began in 2000 when wine merchant Miguel Sánchez fell under Atauta's spell.
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