The 2008 Hito is “the young wine that complements the range of a modern, innovative winery”
100% TINTO FINO
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HARVEST Low temperatures and high humidity delayed shooting and a relatively cool summer
HISTORY The word “HITO" means milestone, a stone post, sometimes carved, used to indicate direction or distance on roads or to delimit fields. HITO was created as a young wine in order to complete the range of this modern, innovative winery. Made from the youngest vines of the winery, grafted with Tinto Fino clones from the flagship vineyards of Bodegas Emilio Moro
TASTING NOTES Cherry red colour covered with clear violets around the rim. The nose is very intense and complex. Red fruits of raspberry and strawberry, black ones of blackcurrant, mulberry and blackberry. Elegant fine oak, subtly toasted with notes of black licorice. Fleshy with sweet tannins that give volume, and with a long aftertaste.
PROCESS The wine has been aged for 8 months in French oak barrels.
What the critics say...
Wine Spectator: 85 points(01/11/2010)
This supple red offers bright berry and cherry flavors, with notes of herbs and smoke. There's just enough tannins for grip, with lively acidity.
Robert Parker: 89 points(01/04/2010)
Bodegas Cepa 21’s 2008 Hito is 100% Tinto Fino (Tempranillo) sourced from the winery’s younger vines and aged for 8 months in French oak. This purple-colored effort offers up an expressive perfume of spice box, violets, black cherry, and blackberry. Medium to full-bodied on the palate, it serves up plenty of concentrated, spicy black fruit along with enough structure to evolve for 1-2 years. This crowd-pleaser can be enjoyed now through 2018.
Proensa Guide: 90 points(01/01/2011)
Evolution: 2013-2014 Food: Baked beef, grilled lamb chops, steak. Tinto Fino (Tempranillo), 8 months in French and American oak. Modern, fresh, with plenty of fruit and obvious ageing but with backroom (minerals, spices, black, scrubland). Good balance in the mouth, alive, with nerve, some consistency, quality tannin, tasty, long.
Peñin Guide: 87 points(01/01/2011)
Dark cherry red colour. On nose, spicy, toasted almond, ripe fruit. On palate, powerful, tasty, fleshy, fruity, roasted coffee.
Bodegas Cepa 21 is the new ambitious project headed by the Moro family, the owners of Bodegas Emilio Moro, one of the most emblematic wineries in the Ribera del Duero. The aim of this project has been to build a modern, functional, minimalist new winery drawing on the savoir faire acquired over... the years by several generations of the Moro family in the making of modern-style wines.
The Moro brothers, José and Javier, wanted to bring some of their best friends into the project and get them to experience some of the thrills and excitement of being part of the world of wine.
The winery, which nestles in the middle of fifty hectares (around 124 acres) of its own Tinto Fino vines (the purest Tempranillo clone), is modern and equipped to bring out the very best of one of the finest varietals in the world.
This new wine, Cepa 21, is aimed at consumers who have the expertise and open-mindedness to discover new tasting characteristics and who also appreciate the subtlety and elegance of a wine that is soft and sweet on the palate with bold aromatics.
Cepa 21 is the pure expression of the wine-making revolution that has been taking place in our country over the last years.
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