A complex nose with notes of ripe black fruits and spice and smoke together with sweet aromas of roasted coffee beans and vanilla and toffee.

On the Palate this wine is full and fleshy with a medium to long length of flavour. Secondary flavours come to the fore expressing the wine's long stay in specially selected oak barrels. The Pesquera Reserva spends at least 14 months in American Oak barrels, before resting in bottle.

Ready to drink now. Best decanted 30 minutes before serving. Pair with red meats, stews or mature cheeses.

Numerous awards endorse these wines, attained throughout 40 years of winemaking. It was a dream come true for the late Alejandro Fernández, whose maxim was always to own a bodega and make fine wines. Today it could be said that reality has surpassed the dream and that Alejandro, his bodegas and his wines have earned worldwide recognition and appreciation.

Founded in 1972. An icon of Spanish wine and widely regarded as the Master of the Tempranillo, Alejandro Fernández achieved naturally concentrated elegant wines which are expressive in youth yet benefit greatly from age. Currently under vine in Pesquera are 500 acres of Tempranillo. Soil types include deep gravel which are quite rare in the region and are essential to the singularly complex Pesquera bouquet.

Awarded 93 points: Tim Atkin MW (September 2023)

"A spicy and flavorful red that shows blackberry fruit, black cherries, nutmeg and sweet walnuts on the nose. It’s full-bodied and well framed with tight-knit tannins. Compact. Drink from 2025."
92 points.
James Suckling, jamessuckling.com (June 2024)

"100% Tempranillo. From vineyards in Pesquera de Duero, facing south at over 800 m elevation and on clay soils with pebbles. Traditionally made and aged for 14 months in American oak barrels.
Tasted blind. Very sweet black-fruit character, generous, warm alcohol on the nose, but well combined with a plum and black-fruit-compote character. Sweet spices, vanilla and cinnamon in dialogue with the fruit character. Great concentration on the palate – dense black fruit and generous, enveloping but integrated tannins. A pleasant wine of great quality. In a very good place at the moment – still in a primary state but with notes of dry grass and hay already beginning to show. Drink to 2040."
16.5 points.
Ferran Centelles, jancisrobinson.com (February 2025)