Spain

Montsant

Cork

Pure old-vine Garnatxa from this astonishing site, fermented in oak vats and aged in large 4,000-litre oak tuns.  There’s a step change here in terms of complexity and allusiveness compared to most of its Montsant peers: vapoury scents of cherry, smoked strawberry and pine, with a kind of meaty-savoury note more familiar in Grenache from Châteauneuf.  On the palate, the wine is intense, concentrated, full and firm, with further notes of perfumed cherry, leather and herbs.  It doesn’t have the simple, juicy, toothsome and joyously balanced pleasure of much young Montsant Garnatxa-based red; but you can’t fault its grandeur, and it has many years ahead.

Grenache / Garnacha

Espetacle, Montsant, Tarragona, Spain, 2014

Pure old-vine Garnatxa from this astonishing site, fermented in oak vats and aged in large 4,000-litre oak tuns.  There’s a step

Espetacle, Montsant, Tarragona, Spain, 2014

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