Pago de Santa Cruz Gran Reserva 2012 75cl

Over five decades ago Severiano Sastre made his first wines in the underground caverns of La Horra, in the northeastern section of Ribera del Duero. As the years went on, he was able to plant more vineyards and develop his domaine. In 1957, he and a group of close friends established the Virgen de la Asunción wine cooperative where they produced their wines together. In 1992, his son Rafael decided to pull back from the cooperative that they long called their oenological home and set up his own family domaine with his father and his two sons, Pedro and Jesus. Their 45 hectares of vines – including Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot - are only now over 50 years old and produce low yields with notably concentrated grapes. They produce 6 different wines which Neal Martin of The Wine Advocate describes as “modern Ribera del Duero…that at the top end pack a mighty punch, although they avoid pretentiousness and ostentation”.