Mustiguillo Finca Terrerazo (100% Bobal)
| Vintage: | 2019 |
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| Description: | This full-bodied red is made in the French model but with Valencia's local rising star, Bobal. Bodegas Mustiguillo, led by the passionate Toni Sarrion, has put the old variety in the spotlight with this bottling especially, which is sourced from 50 to 75-year-old vineyards inland from, and high above, the Mediterranean Sea. It's warmly generous but with enough liveliness to balance it, with flavors of ripe blue and black fruits, cake spice and a cedary quality. The rusticity of the variety has been tamed by fermenting in large French oak vats, and letting the wine age in them for 18 months. It's a marriage of the classic sun-kissed, Mediterranean red and the elegant winemaking of Bordeaux, and welcomes the classic dishes of both, especially a lamb roast. Wine & Spirits Magazine named Mustiguillo as a Top 100 Winery of 2012. Organically Farmed. Wine Advocate 94+ Points - "The 2019 Finca Terrerazo has similar parameters to the 2018 I tasted next to it: 14% alcohol, a slightly lower pH (3.542) and higher acidity (6.15 grams measured in tartaric acid). It also fermented in 3,500- and 5,000-liter oak vats with indigenous yeasts and a soft extraction, and it had an levage in those containers of 18 months. There is a step up in precision here, quite noticeable when tasting it next to the 2018. It's subtle, elegant and insinuating. It was a very good vintage for this wine. In 2018, the vineyards suffered from hail, and the wine shows more clarity here, it's more transparent and pure, it has symmetry and very fine tannins. This has to be the finest Finca Terrerazo so far. 29,360 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2021." |
| Price: | $ 39.98 |
| 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 July 15, 2024.
