Raices de Aza

I'm looking for information on this Ribera del Duero wine, which I believe was one of Jose Pastor's custom jobs. There's no information (that I could find, anyway) on his website. Anybody know anything? Who the winemaker was? Any details of production?

Muchas gracias.

Not familiar with it, but John Gilman says that the Vinos de Terrunos line is (as you said) wines contracted by Pastor. No idea re winemaker, but at least oak regime is covered in review of 2006 Raices de Aza.
I suppose in the context of global warming, a fourteen percent alcohol Ribera del Duero is really a “cooler” wine, but I would love to see this wine with a lower alcohol level. Not that the wine is hot or shows any overripeness on either the nose or palate, but it would be interesting to see the wine’s components at a slightly lower octane. In any case, this is a lovely bottle of Ribera, as the wine was aged entirely in three and four year-old French oak barrels, and offers up a complex and quite elegant nose of black cherries, plums, blood orange, spices, soil tones and an impressively discreet framing of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is medium-full, long, pure and complex, with modest tannins and lovely length and grip on the finish

Thanks, Dale. I got a quick response from Jose Pastor. The winemaker was (is) Jesus Lazaro at Adrada Ecologica in Ribera del Duero. The wine is 100% Tempranillo, aged in French barrels. All the fruit comes from high-elevation vineyards , quite old in age. all head-puned & estate-owned. Lazaro was one of the first winemakers in Ribera del Duero to be certified organic. Pastor had it in his portfolio for two vintages, 2004 and 2005. He says that even though 2004 has the better reputation, he believes the 2005 Raices to be a more vibrant and elegant wine. This is because even though 2005 was a dry year, Lazaro's 70-to-80-year-old vines went deep enough to find enough moisture to still achieve full ripeness. As best I can tell, neither vintage is still available in the U.S., although I would be happy to be proved wrong about this.