Paxton Jones Block Shiraz Organic 2021 vs Valdaya El Valiente Ribera del Duero 2018
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. Valdaya El Valiente Ribera del Duero 2018 currently starts £0.04 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
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| Best current price | £24.99 | £24.95 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Producer | Paxton | Valdaya |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Shiraz | Tempranillo |
| Region | McLaren Vale | Ribera del Duero |
| Country | Australia | Spain |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
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Paxton Jones Block Shiraz Organic 2021
Paxton Single Vineyard Jones Block Shiraz is a rich, full-bodied wine from a unique ridge-top site in McLaren Vale. Deep crimson with purple hues, it opens with savoury notes of nutmeg, cinnamon, and cracked black pepper layered over ripe mulberries and stewed plums. The palate is concentrated, with luxurious oak integration, bright primary fruit, and exceptional length and power. Why You'll Love It This is premium single vineyard Shiraz from one of McLaren Vale's most respected organic producers. The Jones Block vineyard sits on a unique ridge-top site, producing grapes of exceptional concentration and character. Hand-harvested and kept on skins for 15 days with gentle pumping over and plunging twice daily, the wine is matured for up to 20 months in French oak barriques (40% new), followed by six months in bottle before release. NASAA certified organic and crafted by winemaker Ashleigh Seymour, it's a wine of remarkable depth, complexity, and regional authenticity. Meet the Producer Winemaker Ashleigh Seymour and Paxton Wines focus on producing organic and biodynamic wines that reflect the unique terroir of McLaren Vale. The estate combines careful vineyard management with precise winemaking to create wines of elegance, complexity, and regional authenticity. Production Grapes are hand-harvested at optimum ripeness and kept on skins for 15 days. Fermentation involves gentle pumping over and plunging twice daily to extract colour, flavour, and structured tannins, resulting in a wine with depth, intensity, and layered complexity. The wine is matured for up to 20 months in French oak barriques (40% new), followed by six months in bottle prior to release. This careful ageing adds richness, structure, and a polished finish while preserving varietal expression. Tasting Notes Deep crimson with purple reflections, this Shiraz offers aromas of nutmeg, cinnamon, and black pepper, alongside ripe plum and blackcurrant. The palate is full-bodied, rich, and layered, with bright f
Valdaya El Valiente Ribera del Duero 2018
' Elena Lopez was born into a family of farmers in the small town of Sotillo de la Ribera, in the centre of the largest grape-producing region of Ribera del Duero, Burgos. When Elena married JoaquÃn González, a native of Barcelona, she joined him in Catalonia where she built a successful career in the decoration and construction business. After a few years they decided to create a winery in her hometown, together with members of Elena's family who would provide the grapes, and thereby forge a lasting relationship between her growing family in Barcelona and her roots in Sotillo. The first years of Bodegas Valdaya were difficult, but in 2013 everything changed. They recruited a young couple as winemakers, Marta Ramas and Miguel Fisac, who had studied oenology at the University of Bordeaux and learned their trade working in Saint-Emilion, Napa Valley and Capetown in South Africa. With the Valdaya project, they returned to their homeland, Ribera del Duero, to start a new way of vinifying based on micro-fermentation and carrying out each process manually to express the maximum potential of each terroir. The concept was simple: from each of the family growers' nine best plots, they would make nine barrels of wine, maintaining the identity of each parcel through the tiny quantity of wine made in each barrel. The resulting wines displayed silkiness, elegance, the purity of the fruit, a clear finesse that immediately set them apart from most other wines made in Ribera. This is how the new VALDAYA was born. Old vines between 30 and 50 years old. Vineyards are at 850-900 metres altitude. Calcareous soils. Manual harvest, bunch selection in the vineyard. Grapes all destemmed and racked into small stainless steel and concrete tanks in order to control the alcoholic fermentation and the extraction of the wine. Slow and gentle infusion during alcoholic fermentation, to obtain a smooth wine without astringency. Short pump-overs and daily tasting until the extraction is optimal. A
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