Red Wine Protos Gran Reserva with D.O. Ribera del Duero. Tempranillo Grape has been used for this wine. A full-bodied Gran Reserva that is easy to drink at the same time. Premium Wine from Bodega Protos.
94 Peñín | 91 Tim Atkin
Age: Gran Reserva.
Winery: Bodegas Protos.
Tasting notes for Vino Protos Gran Reserva:
Cherry color with garnet edging and glycerine tear.
Aromas of black fruit (plums, blackberries), shady woods, fine hides, toasted woods, spices (black pepper, cloves) and touches of withered flowers appear first.
It has an excellent acidity, it is a wine with a body and at the same time easy to drink, with a good presence of the fruit despite its long aging. Long journey and final sensations that invite you to drink.
Optimum service temperature: 16° C.
A pairing: Magret con salteado de frutas y verduras.
Ingredients: 1 duck magret, 4 small potatoes, 1 onion, 100 gr. of green beans, 1 zucchini, 6 cherry tomatoes, a handful of blueberries, a handful of gooseberries, extra virgin olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper.
Elaboration:
- Cook the potatoes in a saucepan with water and salt for approximately 25 minutes.
- Remove a little of the fat of the magret, season it and seal it in a pan on the side of the fat and then on the other side.
- Put it in a freezer bag with a sprig of thyme. Cook it in a casserole with water at 50° C. for approximately 12-15 minutes.
- Chop the green beans and blanch them in a saucepan with water and salt. Remove them to a bowl with cold water.
- Cut the onion into thick julienne and sauté it in a wok with a jet of olive oil.
- Add the beans and chopped potatoes. Sauté the whole and add the chopped parsley, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, currants and blueberries.
- Put salt and pepper and sauté. Serve the magret with its garnish.
Bon Appetite!
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.
