Las Jaras 2019

The village red 2019 Las Jaras is juicy, fruit-driven and a bit heady, with notes of black fruit, and it is ripe, with 14% alcohol and abundant, fine-grained tannins. It's a blend of 60% Mencía, 30% Prieto Picudo and 10% Alicante Bouschet or Garnacha Tintorera that fermented in oak vats with 75% full clusters and indigenous yeasts with a 35-day maceration and malolactic in oak vat. It's a modern, ripe and quite powerful red bottled after nine months in oak vat and concrete. 22,900 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2021.