Parker über:
Mas de Mancuso Carinena
-- Parker: Cariñena is a grape that likes heat and behaves well in warmer years. Navascués thinks a Cariñena should be something between a powerful Garnacha and a light Graciano, with structure, body and acidity but not necessarily excessive concentration. The 2020 Mas de Mancuso Cariñena was produced with grapes from a very small 45-year-old plot on very stony soils, and it fermented with indigenous yeasts with a short maceration and matured in second use 500-liter French oak barrels for 18 months. It has good ripeness, 14% alcohol, a very low pH of 3.3 and good acidity for a warm year, close to six grams (measured in tartaric acid per liter of wine). It's varietal, combining elegance with rusticity, floral and earthy, perfumed, medium to full-bodied and balanced, with fine-grained tannins. This is a great improvement from the previous vintage I tasted. 1,200 bottles were filled in November 2022. 94+/100