Description
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Three village wines – Villanueva, Navatalgordo, Rozas – sit above La Bruja and below an impressive collection of paraje and single-parcel wines, among which the quasi-iconic El Tamboril, Las Iruelas and Rumbo al Norte.
Winemaking is consistent across the range. Hand harvest is followed by a light-touch approach in the cellar that minimises extraction and focuses on nuance. Infusion-like macerations are done with submerged caps in the fermentation vessel rather than remontage [drawing the fermenting wine from the bottom of a tank to pump it back in at the top, onto the cap]. Fermentations, reliant on natural yeasts only, happen in open vats; ageing takes place in 500L-700L French oak barrels, foudres, cement and/or clay amphorae.
All wines are bottled unfined, unfiltered, with minimum addition of sulphites. ‘Roca y aire [‘stone and air’], that’s the two words that define our wines,’ explains Landi. ‘Minerality and sense of place, on the one hand; and on the other complexity defined by lightness and subtlety.’" - Decanter
"The village 2023 Navatalgordo has grapes from five different parajes or lieu-dits, from the quartz soils from the village. It has a stony personality, but a perfumed nose of violets and violet pastille, with silty tannins and good grip. It’s matured in oak vats to polish those village tannins. Very complete and opens up in the glass nicely, as it’s a little more austere than the one from Villanueva. This is the more tannic of the village reds." - 95+ Points, Luis Gutierrez for The Wine Advocate
