La Plazuela 2018

2018 was clearly a great vintage for Más Que Vinos, with some of the best wines they have produced since they started in 1999. That is the case for the 2018 La Plazuela, the finest Cencibel I know, complemented with 20% Garnacha Tintorera (all organic and certified), which produces a characterful wine with lovely chalky rusticity and an explosive and powerful personality at 15% alcohol. It fermented in a small stainless steel vat with indigenous yeasts and then was transferred to a tinaja for malolactic, where it matured for one year followed by 18 months in French oak barrels and then was put back into the tinaja until bottling. This is a wine that reflects the sun and the countryside of La Mancha like few others. Bravo! 4,000 bottles were filled in January 2021.