Viña Zorzal: Malayeto Garnacha 2024

Parker om: Malayeto Garnacha

The 2024 Malayeto, their first single-vineyard wine they produced, is pure Garnacha from a plot of 2.39 hectares of 45-year-old vines on complex soils with limestone, gravel and stones. It fermented with indigenous yeasts in a combination of concrete and stainless steel with 10% fermented in open-top pools and pressed before the end of the fermentation, which finished without skins. The wine matured in a 4,000-liter oak vat, eight used 500-liter oak barrels and two 700-liter concrete eggs for 12 months. It's serious, with ripeness and structure but neatly balanced. It comes in at 13.95% alcohol, with a pH of 3.3 and 5.45 grams of acidity. The 2024s seem to have more structure, probably thinking about a longer life in bottle for this vintage, which was challenging for some but not for them. It rained a lot at the end of the harvest, but the vines became rehydrated, and they felt they were more balanced. 12,500 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2025.