Bodegas Mauro makes pristine, modernly-styled wines from the heart of the dramatic Duero River region, a dry-and-sunny, high-altitude winemaking hotspot. Mariano Garcia started the winery in 1980, dedicating it to his father who made wine at Vega Sicilia for decades. That style and quality is in his DNA, as his Tempranillo-driven wines are powerful, with electric mouthfeels and intense aromas that smolder up from within.
The flagship Terreus bottling comes from a single vineyard of old, bushy Tempranillo vines from an area called Cueva Baja, and has a dash of Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon for a bit of extra aromatic and textural complexity. Its suave fruit texture is matched with powerful, polished tannins and inner freshness. Aromas of sunny red and dark berries, fig, orange peel, violet, baking and piquant spices (like peppercorn, cinnamon, clove, vanilla pod), and a subtle earthy smokiness emerge gradually as it opens in the glass. This will get even better with years in bottle, so if you can, tuck one away! A perfect wine for roasts, stews with mushrooms and richly textured, roasted vegetable dishes. Practices organic farming and biodynamics.
WINE ADVOCATE 98+ POINTS - "The 2021 Terreus Cima de Cueva Baja is among the finest vintages for this exceptional red from the top terrace of a vineyard at 800 meters above sea level with a specific microclimate that makes for a profound, complex, powerful and nuanced wine that is among the best in the Duero region and has a track record for longevity like very few others. The bunches are cooled down before being put through a sorting table, destemmed and transported by gravity (in an "ovi" type vat) to the stainless steel fermentation tanks, where it fermented with indigenous yeasts and went through malolactic. It matured in French oak barrels for 20 months. The good thing about these wines is that they are produced in good quantities, as there are 10,000 bottles of this. It was bottled in August 2023. It has a long life ahead of it. Bravo."
The flagship Terreus bottling comes from a single vineyard of old, bushy Tempranillo vines from an area called Cueva Baja, and has a dash of Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon for a bit of extra aromatic and textural complexity. Its suave fruit texture is matched with powerful, polished tannins and inner freshness. Aromas of sunny red and dark berries, fig, orange peel, violet, baking and piquant spices (like peppercorn, cinnamon, clove, vanilla pod), and a subtle earthy smokiness emerge gradually as it opens in the glass. This will get even better with years in bottle, so if you can, tuck one away! A perfect wine for roasts, stews with mushrooms and richly textured, roasted vegetable dishes. Practices organic farming and biodynamics.
WINE ADVOCATE 98+ POINTS - "The 2021 Terreus Cima de Cueva Baja is among the finest vintages for this exceptional red from the top terrace of a vineyard at 800 meters above sea level with a specific microclimate that makes for a profound, complex, powerful and nuanced wine that is among the best in the Duero region and has a track record for longevity like very few others. The bunches are cooled down before being put through a sorting table, destemmed and transported by gravity (in an "ovi" type vat) to the stainless steel fermentation tanks, where it fermented with indigenous yeasts and went through malolactic. It matured in French oak barrels for 20 months. The good thing about these wines is that they are produced in good quantities, as there are 10,000 bottles of this. It was bottled in August 2023. It has a long life ahead of it. Bravo."
