Pico del Mirlo 2017

I tasted two vintages—2017 and 2018—of their single-vineyard bottling produced with grapes from a very old two-hectare plot in the village of Cadalso de los Vidrios called Prado los Pinos. The 2017 Pico del Mirlo Garnacha fermented with 20% full clusters in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and matured in 600-liter French oak barrels for 10 months, including malolactic. It has more ripeness, extraction, oak and tannins, which makes it come through as a little more rustic too. 3,500 bottles were filled in November 2018.