Sindicat La Figuera Garnatxa Montsant
| Vintage: | 2021 |
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| Description: | #8 on Hi-Time's Top Spanish Wines of 2024. 100% Garnatxa Fina (aka Garnacha aka Grenache). We love the simple pleasures of this quintessentially old-school red: deliciously savory, fruity, suave and mid-weight, it's a traditional taste of the Mediterranean mountains of Montsant. This is pure Garnacha, sourced from higher-altitude vines, then fermented and aged in old-fashioned underground concrete vats for a brief 9 months. Flavors combine in a balanced swirl of umami -tinged baked plum and strawberry, orange oil, peppercorn, tobacco, sage and developing leather. The complexity and graceful openness make it a serious everyday wine ! The Sindicat La Figuera is a group of Montsant growers, formed in 1932, but given new life by star winemaker Rene Barbier of Clos Mogador. Wine Advocate 91 Points - "The characterful and honest unoaked Garnacha red 2021 Sindicat La Figuera was produced in a very simple and traditional wayfermented with a short maceration in underground concrete vats, where the wine matured with abundant rackings. 2021 was a cool vintage, and the wine has 1% less alcohol than the 2020 I tasted next to it; this wine comes through as fresher and with better balance. It's more delicate, elegant within the rustic and straightforward style they look for, with very fine tannins and very clean and focused flavors. A great improvement. Production grew to some 60,000 bottles. It was bottled in August 2022 after maturing exclusively in concrete.". "Sindicat La Figuera is a small co-operative in the Montsant Mountains founded in 1932, producing wines of brightness and integrity. One must navigate very narrow, winding roads up the mountainside to reach the town of La Figuera, which sits at 600m elevation and has a mere 80 residents. The town appears to rise up out of the peak of the mountain, with the surrounding mountains and the Priorat region in view in all directions. La Figuera is known for the beauty and elegance of their pure Garnatxa wines and is one of the few places where it is bottled on its own. Famed Priorat-based winemaker, Ren Barbier, also took note of La Figueras Garnatxa wines and decided to join forces with the members of the co-op to help with winemaking. Rene says that you can always tell when a wine is from La Figuera, because there is a unique limestone content in the soil that brings lightness to the Garnatxa. Wines are fermented with wild yeasts in underground concrete tanks with minimum temperature control, where they spend around 9 months aging on fine lees before being bottled. " - Jose Pastor Selections |
| Price: | $ 19.98 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Available from Hi-Time Wine Cellars
| Address: |
250 Ogle Street Costa Mesa, CA 92627 United States |
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| Telephone (toll-free): | 800-331-3005 |
| Telephone (regular): | 949-650-8463 |
| Fax: | 949-631-6863 |
First added to 1000 Corks on June 18, 2024.
