Pago de Carraovejas 2019 Ribera del Duero

Pago de Carraovejas began with restaurateur José María Ruiz's ambition to make a Ribera del Duero wine of his own. He founded the estate near Peñafiel in 1987, and its first vintage followed in 1991. His son, Pedro Ruiz Aragoneses, assumed leadership in 2007. Outside Peñafiel, vineyards rise through the Carraovejas Valley to roughly 850 metres, with Tinto Fino, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon planted across the slope. The winery handles fruit and wine by gravity, while fermentations rely on yeasts and bacteria selected from the estate itself.