2020 Bodegas Frontonio Garnacha Microcosmico

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 88 points

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  4/21/2024 - Chateau Hillpoint wrote: 87 Points

  Thin at this tasting.

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  3/1/2024 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Soft fruit but with some good spice. Soft and easy fruit.

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  5/9/2023 - Rabaja Does not like this wine:

  Not my thing. Super light style of grenache which I sometimes enjoy. For me, the amount of volatile acidity is a big turn off. Viniferatu's tasting notes are spot on if you enjoy wines this amount of VA. For me, all I can think of is aromas strawberry jam and stomach bile. The palate is light on its feet and the entry is sweet with tons of strawberry. The midpalate is cherry, bay leaf and blood orange and finishes very green with string tannins. Maybe this evolves into something nice, but now it's sweet, angular and acidic.

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  2/17/2023 - viniferatu Likes this wine:

  This stuff is always so good, and the 2020 is not letting me down, if anything, it may be the best vintage I've had so far, the winemaking at Frontonio is stylish and impeccable. This is intense and fully ripe Garnacha, but light on its feet and super elegant. Bra-fucking-vo.
  
  Aromas of kirsch, raspberry liqueur, roses, airy spice and Mediterranean herbs, a little blood orange, pomegranate molasses, woodsy peppercorns and petrichor too. On the palate it is tight and tense for a second before exploding with sour cherry and raspberry notes, and it takes quite some time for that wave of fruit to recede and let delicate mineral and herbal tones take over. Tannins are fine and grip lightly, while the acidity is bright and cutting, this is quite tart for Garnacha, but beautifully ripe to be sure. Surely worth following at least a few years. I love this rather rare style of Garnacha.

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