Wine Advocate - 13 Jun 2024 - Luis Gutierrez - 2021 Aalto PS - 95/100 - $140 - 2026 - 2036
The 2021 PS has a similar profile as the regular Aalto but with a little bit more of everything, more ripeness—playing dangerously with overripeness—and alcohol (15%), more concentration and power and also more oak that reveals itself in the shape or aromas of fried corn. It's powerful and tannic, in need of years in bottle and/or powerful food. This is very good in its style, impeccably crafted and aged in the best barrels money can buy. 35,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in September 2023.

Aalto keeps faithful to the ripe, powerful and generously oaked profile that made its red wines famous. But their white is the opposite—sharp and fresh, with unnoticeable oak. They control 130 hectares of old vines in nine villages of Ribera del Duero with which they produce 380,000 bottles annually.