Amancio 2020

The single-vineyard 2020 Amancio comes from grapes selected from 16.5 hectares in the zone of La Veguilla in San Vicente de la Sonsierra at 490 meters above sea level. The grapes were hand destemmed, one by one, and fermented in 500-liter oak barrels and two 1,000-liter oak vats after a five-day cold soak. It matured in new French oak barriques for 18 months. It has contained ripeness, good freshness and balance but suffers in the comparison with other wines from 2021. Then the warmer year comes through in the shape of riper fruit and less perfect tannins. There’s a little more rusticity and earthiness and perhaps a little faster development. The oak also seems to have had a stronger impact on the aromatics here. 4,000 bottles were filled in May 2023.

Amancio comes from an extensive 16-hectare parcel that was planted between 35 and 80 years ago in the San Vicente de la Sonsierra sub-zone of La Veguilla. Aromatic, detailed and well structured, it has plenty of coffee bean and cigar box oak, impressive focus and freshness for a 2020, plum, black cherry and mulberry flavours and smooth, supple, palatecoating tannins. 2025-32