Paixar 2015

After many vintages, the 2015 Paixar is now a brand of Luna Beberide. 2015 is a ripe vintage and the wine shows it in its heady and ripe nose, quite aromatic, expressive if very obviously young. This has always been a ripe, powerful and concentrated red, often generously oaked, designed for the long haul. The grapes come from the village of Dragonte, at high altitude and with slate-based soils that provide a texture and wide minerality to the wines. The palate revealed abundant, slightly dusty tannins that might need some more time in bottle and/or powerful food. 8,000 bottles produced. 2014 was the only vintage that has not been produced as they only got 2,000 kilos of grapes—the rest had been eaten by wild boars. The danger of having vineyards in isolated wild zones.... I also had the chance to taste the 2001, which was showing amazing and long-lived, and the 2003, which reflected the heat of the vintage and was a little heavier.