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RIBERA DEL DUERO is a paradoxical region, ancient yet thoroughly modern. Its wines embrace the mainstream characteristics that seem so popular around the world. They are plush, opulent, flamboyantly fruity and powerfully okay. Yet while some unavoidably stray into the homogenized international style, the best remain identifiably Spanish. More