El Tiemblo ‘Las Iruelas‘ - Garnacha

Garnacha | single vineyard van 1,1 ha op 750+ meter hoogte, redelijk stenig terroir met graniet met klei | bush vines dry farmed 60+ jaar | vergist voor 60-90 dagen whole bunch in een open eikenhout vat | na een aantal dagen wordt er een stalen frame in het vat gehangen om de 'hoed' in het midden van het vat de duwen, geen pump-overs of pigeage | rijping voor 12 maanden op oude eikenhout foudre's van 1400 liter | lavendel | pure rijpe expressie van Garnacha | grootse tannine's | verfijning alom | een van de grootste Spaanse wijnen van Garnacha | enorme potentie tot rijping | op allocatie leverbaar! 

Dani Landi

Een van onze all time favourites! In het prachtige Gredos gebergte maakt Dani van 60 jaar oude druivenstokken een Pinot Noir-achtige stijl van Grenache. Hij heeft oude wijngaarden weer tot leven gewekt in een gebied wat totaal verlaten was en precies deze wijngaarden behoren nu tot de basis voor de beste rode wijnen uit Spanje van dit moment. In de kelder wordt alles handmatig gedaan en met respect voor de natuur en herkomst prachtige, pure rode wijn gemaakt.

Review

Always a wine of incredible lightness and energy, the 2018 Las Iruelas excels in a year like 2018. It is delicate and floral and comes from a relatively large 1.1-hectare vineyard in the valley that names the wine, in the village of El Tiemblo in the province of Ávila in the Gredos wine region. It's a very steep slope that faces east and gets the morning sun, but it is protected by the mountain from the afternoon sun. The soil is quite unique, as it contains a mixture of granite and schist, laminated and with vertical veins that allow the roots to go very deep. The soils are very shallow, barely 20 centimeters and are rich in sand, quartz and silt. The climate is also quite unique—it gets abundant rains since it's located in a place where storms get trapped between the Tiétar and Alberche Valleys. The bunches are painstakingly cleaned, and every grape that is less than perfect is removed before they are put into oak vats to ferment with the natural yeasts, with a soft vinification and an infusion of very long macerations. The wine matured in a 1,400-liter oak vat for 12 months. This is ethereal, transparent, aromatic and nuanced, with incredible energy but with a silky mouthfeel that makes it feel light but has amazing inner power! It has to be the most elegant vintage of Iruelas. 1,785 bottles were filled in March 2020. 98/100 Luis Gutiérrez

Some of the Comando G wines, produced in the same place and in exactly the same way, come from vineyards that were owned or worked by Daniel Gomez Jiménez-Landi when he worked at his family winery, and the wines are marketed separately under the Dani Landi (how people refer him) label. As with some of their other wines, I tasted the whole range of 2018s and some 2019s in November 2020.