Camino de Navaherreros Tinto 2024
11.25€ (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / Spain
Features
Type of wine
Pairings
Style
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Size
Appellation
Alcohol
13.5%
Grapes
Serving
Between 14ºC and 16ºC
Winemaking
Fermented with indigenous yeasts and 50% stems with ageing for 6 months in concrete tanks.
Description
In the foothills of the Sierra de Gredos, where winters are harsh and summers seem carved by the sun, a wine is born that does not ask permission to be authentic: Camino de Navaherreros Tinto. Under the radical and committed vision of Bernabeleva, a winery that more than making wine, is the custodian of a landscape, this red wine is the free and direct expression of San Martín de Valdeiglesias (DO Vinos de Madrid), a still wild area, with a winemaking history that dates back to the Romans and that today, thanks to projects like this one, is experiencing a well-deserved resurrection.
The Bernabeleva estate is a sanctuary of old Garnacha vines -some of them centuries old- grown on poor, degraded granite soils, at Altura of almost 800 metres. There are no unnecessary interventions here. The viticulture is ecological, almost mystical, guided more by instinct and listening to the environment than by the manual. The Camino represents just that: a journey. It is the entry point to the Bernabeleva universe, but no less demanding or sincere. It emerges from young and older plots, like an honest collage of the landscape. Perhaps the bravest decision was to leave aside the ambition of concentration to embrace lightness and freshness as oenological values.
Elaboration
Camino de Navaherreros Tinto is vinified as wines were vinified before technology erased the imprint of place. Each plot is harvested by hand, in small boxes. The grapes, partially destemmed, ferment spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel tanks or concrete vats, at contained temperatures, to preserve the aromatic delicacy.
The maceration does not seek to extract power, but rather transparency. Ageing, of about 9 months, takes place in steel tanks and large used oak vats, allowing the wine to refine without disguising its essence. There is no make-up or oenological pyrotechnics here: the wine is bottled with minimal intervention, respecting its fluid texture and its ability to speak of the soil.
Taste
The first contact with Camino de Navaherreros Tinto is almost ethereal. Its light ruby colour already anticipates what will be an experience of purity and fluidity. The nose opens with aromas of wild cherry, fresh raspberry and a faint echo of scrubland herbs : rosemary, thyme, a whisper of rockrose. Nothing is invasive, everything vibrates in a low, elegant register, like a wine that prefers to insinuate rather than shout.
In the mouth it is juicy, airy, with a lively acidity that tightens the palate and lengthens the drink. The Garnacha here is at its most graceful, far from overripe. There is some plum skin, a touch of pomegranate, and in the background, an earthy minerality reminiscent of pulverised granite, almost as if you could smell the hillside after a storm.
The tannin, silky and present, supports the whole with balance and temperance. The finish is long but subtle, with an aftertaste of dried spices and stony soil. It is a wine that flows rather than weighs, refreshing rather than overwhelming. An ideal companion for simple Mediterranean dishes - roast chicken with thyme, peppers confit, cured sheep's cheeses - or simply to drink in long, leisurely sips.
Camino de Navaherreros Tinto is not a wine of immediate impact, but of slow seduction. It does not seek to be monumental, but true. A wine that does not interpret the land, but transmits it.
Shipping to Peninsular Spain
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| 30 | Free | 0.00€ (Free) |
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| 36 | Free | 0.00€ (Free) |
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| 42 | Free | 0.00€ (Free) |
| 43-47 | 28.90€ | 0.00€ (-28.90€) |
| 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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