Anza CDVIN 2022

An expressive delivery with nimble, racy red berries, cherries, grapefruit, hibiscus, minerals and oyster shells. Fluid yet structured, but the tannins are fresh and caressing. Not as powerful as San Vincente de la Sonsierra, but more drinkable and polished. Drink or hold.

CDVIN - short for Cordovín - is the source of this youthful blend of Garnacha and Viura, planted in the 1920s on red clay soils. Perfumed, vigorous and intense with nuanced oak, a hint of good reduction and tangy, stony raspberry, plum and red cherry fruit. 2024-30

The heady, ripe, showy and aromatic 2022 Anza CDVIN surprised me because the label showed "only" 13.5% alcohol, but the sensation is of high ripeness and some heat, with notes of ripe Garnacha and a touch of soy sauce. It was produced with a mixture of grapes from Tejares in Cordovín and Pornadilla in Badarán, both from old vines, and it fermented destemmed in plastic bins with indigenous yeasts and matured in two 500-liter barrels. It has abundant, slightly dusty tannins and is a little more rustic than its siblings. 2022 was very warm, and yields were much lower than in 2021. 1,430 bottles produced. It was bottled in September 2023. - Luis Gutiérrez.