Community Tasting Note

Cbanks wrote:

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - Jancis Robinson
The scent of iris and violet and orris root floats above the glass – too river-stone cool to be heady, but too fragrant to be stony. The wine is like a warm summer night, the way it moves over the skin: a flow so laminar it is stillness. Midnight-blue fruit soaking through the cashmere tannins. Dark-red wild berries curling through the cracks in the stone-and-iron minerality. Cool oakmoss breath of cistus warming into musk as it becomes saturated with the quiet, graceful beauty of the fruit. It's glorious right now but has a long life ahead. Drink 2024 to 2035. 17.5pts. (TC)

Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot (roughly one-third of each). An ‘extreme selection’: best parcels and best parts of the parcels and best barrels. 18 months in barriques. Pressed straight to 225-litre French barriques once fermentation is over . In 2019 it was 15 months in barrel, then racked into tank, and then three years in bottle before release - the reason for this is that altitude and soil it means the wines have very high acidity and low pH, so when they are young, they are not very approachable. It needs time in bottle to ‘relax’. They rented a huge warehouse so they can hold bottles back until they are ready to drink. 14,500 bottles.

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