Ramos Ducher 2023 | Ribera del Duero

The name brings together two surnames and two countries: the Ramos family, of Olmedillo de Roa, and the Ducher family, of French descent. The house is dedicated to three forebears — Renée, Nicéforo and Conrado — and one of them gives his name to the single-plot wine.

The winery is in Olmedillo de Roa, in Burgos, at 850 metres. Their forebears planted the vineyard and part of it predates 1950.

They work plot by plot, and each one has its name: Viña Tamarón, Viña Bierra, Viña Valdelozán — upper and lower — Viña Fuenteolmillos, Viña El Prado and Viña Las Navas.

Nicéforo comes from Viña Tamarón, one hectare at 850 metres on poor, well-drained clay-loam soil, from vines planted in 1945: they were 74 years old at the 2019 harvest. It is 100% tinta del país, worked with no herbicides and no systemic treatments.

It is picked by hand with selection in the vineyard and ages twenty-four months in four new French oak barrels, from the Murua and Rousseau cooperages: the whole vintage fits in them. It is barely clarified and not filtered. The house red comes from 45-year-old vines, 85% tempranillo, 11% merlot and 4% cabernet, aged nine months between French and American oak.