Vino Tinto Protos Reserva
Red Wine Protos Reserva from D.O. Ribera del Duero. Made with Tempranillo grape. A high quality Reserva with tertiary aromas and fruity character from Bodega Protos.
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Age: Reserva.
Winery: Bodegas Protos.
Type of wood and time of passage: 18 months in American oak barrels and minimum 24 months more in bottle.
Tasting note for Vino Tinto Protos Reserva:
Cherry color with purple trim, medium-high layer.
It retains quite a fruity character, although the tertiary aromas dominate: cocoa, toasted, vanilla.
Soft entry, a velvety step, thanks to its sweet and dull tannins. It is almost a sweet tooth, again for that fruit weight, very well balanced with acidity. A very varietal wine with a "very Ribera" profile.
Optimum service temperature: 14° C.
A pairing: Medallones de venado.
Ingredients: 1,500 gr. of deer sirloin, 12 prunes without bone, 1 sprig of thyme, 350 ml. of beef broth, a pinch of salt and pepper, ¼ spoon of ground cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon of ground clove, 125 ml. of red wine (Protos Rva.), 50 gr. of butter, 1 chopped onion and 1 clove of chopped garlic.
Elaboration:
- Mix the red wine, the plums, the thyme and the broth and bring to a boil for 3 minutes. Remove, cover and reserve.
- Cut the sirloin into medallions. Mix the salt, pepper, cinnamon and cloves and sprinkle over the meat.
- Melt the butter over medium-high heat and cook the medallions for 4 minutes on each side. Remove them from the pan and reserve them hot.
- In the same skillet sauté the onion and garlic, without taking color and add the wine mixture.
- Bring to a boil, lower the heat and reduce the liquid in half. Serve the medallions washed with the sauce.
To enjoy!
Protos, a Greek word that means "first", was, in effect, the first winery to produce what 50 years later would be the Denomination of Origin Ribera del Duero. In recent times, and like other wineries in the area, found in Rueda the ideal place to make a white wine (not allowed in the D.O. Ribera del Duero) and chose La Seca (Valladolid), known as "the cradle of Verdejo."
It is one of the few wineries of the Denomination that elaborate rose, since most of the wineries turn into the production of red wines. After the harvest, bunches of grapes are stripped (separate the berries of the raspon or woody part of the cluster) and crushed to stay macerated with the mosto 16 hours, this maceration gives it its beautiful color and allows extracting all the aromas of the skins.