Bernabeleva Garnacha de Viña Bonita 2022

Usually my favorite here, the 2022 Garnacha de Viña Bonita was produced with grapes from the vineyard that produces their most elegant wine, a plot on white granite soils whose grapes fermented with 80% full clusters and a long maceration of six weeks. The élevage was in three used 600-liter barrels. It has a pale and bright ruby color and a complex and intriguing nose with notes of meat broth and decayed violets plus the usual aromatic herbs and spice. The palate has the most elegant tannins of the 2022s, fine-grained and with a chalky and dry sensation in the finish. It has 14.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.4 and 5.07 grams of acidity. It is delicious and elegant. 2,200 bottles represents the largest production ever from this vineyard. It was bottled in May 2024. - Luis Gutiérrez. 

Gredos, granite and Garnacha. Viña Bonita is a parcel of 80 year old vines grown at 700m which captures the purity of the region, its soils and the variety. The surrounding forest brings a herbal note and a touch of wet earth which combines with red cherry fruit and cola. It is a voluptuous red which maintains its tension through stony energy and fresh acidity. There’s an ethereal quality to this wine which is elegant and poised but is still a little wild at heart. 2024 - 2032