Arché Pagès, Bonfill, Empordà, Spain, 2014

An outstanding granite-grown Grenache and Carignan blend from the Arché-Pagès’s Capmany cellar. This is blackish-red in colour, with stony, savoury aromas. On the palate it's vivid, fresh, pure and elemental. A total terroir wine in which the relatively subdued fruit is not the point at all; it is stone and plants which you sense in the tension between tannins and acidity. A perfect wine to compare with the best of the Agly valley.