{"id":5595,"date":"2022-07-21T09:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T07:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balbas.es\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2023-03-21T08:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T07:25:14","slug":"grandes-puntuaciones-de-james-suckling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/grandes-puntuaciones-de-james-suckling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Balb\u00e1s, elevated by James Suckling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prestigious international critic, James Suckling, has tasted our Ritus, Balb\u00e1s Reserva, Alitus and Botero, all of them scoring above 92 points.<\/p>\n<p>Like every year, a careful selection of wines is chosen in Hong Kong to receive the evaluations of one of the world&#039;s wine references in recent years. Thus, within this tasting panel, our reds have obtained great recognition as one of the best in the region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/vinos\/ritus\/\">R<u>itus 2018 \u2013 92 POINTS<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elaborated with a special affection, its grapes are born in a unique panorama, <strong>the farm La Malata<\/strong>. This beautiful place is located <strong>940 meters<\/strong> altitude, thus crowning the <strong>Ribera del Duero<\/strong>. There, both the <strong>tempranillo<\/strong> (75%) and the <strong>merlot<\/strong> (25%) grow under unique weather conditions, ideal for us to extract their full potential. After spending 18 months in our room <strong>barrels<\/strong>, they will finish rounding themselves in the bottle to reach their fullness.<strong> Ritus<\/strong> It is a wine marked by its personality, aromatic and very tasty. Will not leave you indifferent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/vinos\/balbas-reserva\/\">B.<u>alb\u00e1s Reserve 2016 \u2013 93 POINTS<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If something represents our manufacturing tradition, it is the passion for the effort and dedication to the land that saw us born, the <strong>Ribera del Duero<\/strong>, and the enormous love that we put into our wines. <strong>Balb\u00e1s Reserva<\/strong> brings together in a bottle everything that <strong>Balbas family<\/strong> we have been developing since <strong>1777<\/strong>. In this way, the Tempranillo that we carefully select by hand will enjoy a total of <strong>24 months<\/strong> in oak barrels, evolving deviously, caressed by the passage of time. Once it reaches our bottle rack, it will spend the same period of time to continue enveloping aromas, flavors and textures, until achieving a unique riverside reserve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/vinos\/alitus\/\"><u>Alitus 2014 \u2013 93 POINTS<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is the jewel in the crown of the family. Made only in exceptional vintages, our <b>Alitus<\/b> enclose in a bottle <b>Tempranillo (75%)<\/b>, <b>Cabernet Sauvignon (20%)<\/b> Y <b>Merlot (5%)<\/b>, coming from our <b>centenary vineyards<\/b>. After <b>36 months<\/b> resting in <b>Oak barrels<\/b> and another 36 rounded up in the bottle, a red wine designed to enjoy the elegance of the Ribera sees the light. Its aromatic power, the intensity of its flavor and the delicacy of its assembly will delight any palate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/vinos\/botero\/\"><u>Botero 2014 \u2013 93 POINTS<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>long before in <b>1777<\/b> our ancestor<b> abounded <\/b>decided to start making wine, in the <b>Balbas family<\/b> We were already fully linked to our land, and, therefore, to the world of wine. The boatmen were the people who dedicated themselves to working the leather of animals to make skins, skins, or wine boots. This was the best way to transport our precious wine well preserved. of this pride <b>family<\/b>, as if it were a journey through time, is born <b>Balbas Botero<\/b>. A handful of bottles that, by themselves, explain the hard work of our family, since our beginning. Made in the image and likeness of the first steps we took in this our beloved land. <b>The Ribera del Duero<\/b>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prestigious international critic has awarded more than 92 points to all our wines.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":5606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[53,67,72,48,225,60,74,55],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-alitus","tag-balbas","tag-barrica","tag-crianza","tag-penin","tag-puntuaciones","tag-reserva","tag-ritus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balbas.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}