Bernabeleva Arroyo del Tórtolas 2022
37.60€ (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / Spain
Bodegas y Viñedos Bernabeleva
Vinos de Madrid
Last 6 bottles. Immediate shipment
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Arroyo del Tórtolas is a single-vineyard Garnacha from a plot that achieves higher ripeness, and it has the palest color of the 2022s. This is the wine that they consider 'wilder,' and it has higher alcohol (15%) but also higher acidity, which compensates for the ripeness. It's spicy and heady but delicate, juicy and fine-boned, with very fine tannins and a long finish where you notice the warm year. It fermented with 80% full clusters and indigenous yeasts and had a long maceration of more than 60 days. This wine is quite regular year in, year out. It matured in four used 500-liter barrels and is the one where you feel the élevage in the aromas, but nothing excessive. 2,400 bottles produced. There's also a three-year blend from this plot.
Features
Type of wine
Pairings
Style
Occasions
Size
Appellation
Alcohol
15.5%
Grapes
Serving
Between 14ºC and 16ºC
Winemaking
Alcoholic fermentation with part of the stalks in open wood tub. Aged for 11 monts in French oak barrels of 225 and 600 litres capacity.
Description
Bernabeleva Arroyo del Tórtolas comes from the impressive Arroyo del Tórtolas vineyard, which encompasses only 1.2 hectares of 80 year old vines situated 800 metres above sea level on pure granitic sand. It is one of Bernabeleva's three single vineyard wines, with Arroyo del Tórtolas being the steepest, the highest and the only one facing north. In 2007, Juan Bulnes acquired the lower section of the vineyard and, three years later, completed the parcel.
The sandy granitic sands, known locally as episienite, are ploughed by horses under the control of Miguel Santiago, one of the last two specialists in his field in this area. Despite being one of the first Bernabeleva vineyards to mature, the geological variability and steep location always result in two separate harvests: one from the top and one from the bottom. Yields are naturally low, with each vine producing approximately two bottles of wine.
Winemaking
The grapes are trodden by foot and left to ferment naturally in wooden vats. Fermentation can take up to two months in some years, and the percentage of stems depends on the vintage. Ageing takes place in 500 and 600 litre barrels for 12 months, after which the wine is bottled unfiltered.
Taste
Bernabeleva Arroyo del Tórtolas is seen as the Garnacha wine with the most Gredos typicity in the Bernabeleva wine portfolio. While Viña Bonita, coming from south-facing vines, offers a deeper and denser expression, Arroyo del Tórtolas offers something pure, delicate and limpid. Its aromas, infused with floral essences, are captivating, and its palate, gracefully structured, blossoms with an intriguing mineral nuance.
Shipping to Peninsular Spain
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| 48 | Free | 0.00€ (Free) |
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| 54 | Free | 0.00€ (Free) |
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| 60 | Free | 0.00€ (Free) |
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