Terroir Sense Fronteres: Montsant Vertebra Garnacha 2023

: Grenache 100%

: rot, trocken; 14,0% Vol.; Trinkreife: 2026–2041

: fruchtbetont; seidig & aromatisch; strukturiert

: Lobenberg: 94+/100; Suckling: 94/100; Parker: 94/100; Penin: 94/100

: Spanien, Katalonien, Montsant

: Allergene: Sulfite,

Abfüller / Importeur: Terroir Sense Fronteres S.L., Carrer Baixa Font, 12, 43737 Torroja del Priorat, Tarragona, SPANIEN

Das ist mal ein echt leckerer und charmanter Wein von Dominique Huber. Reine Grenache aus bis zu 100 Jahre alten Reben in 600 Metern Höhe gepflanzt. Bio wie alles hier. Lehm und Kreideboden. Im Beton vergoren und auch ausgebaut. Erdbeer, Zwetschge und weiche, samtige Tannine, reif und doch frisch, superber, leckerer Trinkfluss. Reife Finesse. Passt alles!

2023 war sehr warm, aber er ist deutlich kühler und balancierter als der noch heißere und trockenere 2022. Nicht so aufregend und extrem wie 2021, eher eine reife und harmonische Version von 2020. Und so ist 2023 durchaus eine Fortsetzung der so großen Jahrgänge seit 2019. Luis Gutierez, Parkers Mann für Spanien, fasst den Jahrgang 2023 anhand von Alvaro Palacios Weingütern ganz im Westen und ganz im Osten, somit Landesübergreifend so zusammen: 2023 was an even more generous crop than 2022 … the wines have better balance, and it doesn't feel like a warm year at all. In fact, the wines feel more like they come from a cool year. It's a vintage that has a tendency toward reduction, not as much as 2020, but still reductive. But it's an elegant, stony reduction...The quality of the 2023s is stunning. There is a level of precision, cleanliness, symmetry and elegance that, if the end of the élevage and the bottling goes as expected, I must conclude that 2023 might be the finest vintage ... There might be other individual wines that reach higher peaks, but as an overall portfolio, the vintage 2023 represents the strongest collection ever produced.

Suckling über: Montsant Vertebra Garnacha

The 2023 Vèrtebra de la Figuera from Montsant is 100% Garnatxa from high-altitude vineyards. It is less about fruit and more about nuance, offering delicate hoppy and herbal notes. Refined and chalky on the palate, it emphasizes energy and flavor over body with gentle tannins. A fine, modern expression of Garnatxa in Spain.

Parker über: Montsant Vertebra Garnacha

The 2023 Vèrtebra de La Figuera is pure Garnacha from a vineyard they own in the village of La Figuera from bunches with a thinner skin and larger grapes. It's classical La Figuera (they call it Garnacha Fina), which delivers finer wines cropped from vines at 600 meters in altitude on pink clay and gypsum soils. These clusters fermented whole in concrete with indigenous yeasts for a week, and the wine matured in concrete for six months. This is the palest of the reds, and even though the concrete is less reductive than stainless steel, the wine feels very closed and primary, quite ungiving at first. There's cleanliness and precision here; it has finesse, some spice, good ripeness and balance. It comes in at 13% alcohol and has a medium-bodied palate with a nice backbone and very fine tannins and a caressing mouthfeel. It needs a little bit of time in a decanter or, probably better, a couple of years in bottle. It's a step up in finesse, complexity and depth from the Negre. 1,600 bottles produced. It was bottled in April 2024.

Penin über: Montsant Vertebra Garnacha

kirschrot mit violettem Saum. In der Nase ausdrucksstark fruchtig, rote Früchte, blumig, würzig, Thymian. Am Gaumen geschmackvoll, fruchtig, schöne Säure.

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