Tinto Pesquera at “EXCLUSIVE Ribera del Duero - VINEXPO 2005”

Michel Bettane chose twelve ‘Riberas’ to represent this Appellation at the French trade show.

The selection process was really scrupulous. First of all, three groups of four persons each –all of them experts and members of the Tasting Committees of the Appellation’s Council– tasted blindly and scored, following O.I.V. rules, the 86 wine samples (one for each winery) presented. The final score for each wine was the arithmetic mean of the individual scores.

On April 13, Mr. Michel Bettane did – in the Tasting Room of the Appellation’s Council – a rigorous blind taste of the 50 wines best punctuated, dividing them in groups of five. The prestigious French expert selected eleven wines for the taste, adding one more by his own professional criteria, such as the wine prototype from aged Ribera del Duero.

These eleven wines represented the Guarantee of Origin during the Edition of the Fair Vinexpo, which has been celebrated in Burgundy, from June 19 to the 23, 2005. The selected wines were presented by Mr. Bettane to a select group of professionals (from France and other countries) with the main purpose of maintaining and empowering the high quality image of the wines from Ribera del Duero in the international market. The wines selected had been produced between the period from 1998 to 2003. There were also a Vega Sicilia from 42 and a Red Pesquera – Millenium from 96.