Las Loberas 2019

The single-vineyard red 2019 Las Loberas is from a plot at 700 meters in altitude on shallow sandy pink granite soils, the first of the red vineyards to be harvested. It fermented with 20% full clusters in concrete vats with indigenous yeasts and matured in six 225-liter oak vats for 14 months, including malolactic. This is an extreme vineyard with a lowish altitude (for the zone), very different soil and extremely old vines with a south-facing exposure, which allows the grapes to ripen thoroughly. It gives a wild and concentrated wine, a different expression of Garnacha, a little more southern Rhône, if you will. But what is remarkable is how the wine keeps the freshness and balance. They only get 2,000 kilos of grapes from three hectares of vines! Very surprising. 1,500 bottles were filled in February 2021.