Comando G - Navatalgordo 2023 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $66.00
| Producer | Comando G |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Castilla Y Leon |
| Varietal | Grenache |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Sku | 9860 |
| Size | 750ml |
Wine Advocate: 95+ Points
The village 2023 Navatalgordo has grapes (mostly purchased from regular suppliers) from five different parajes or lieu-dits from the stony and quartz soils from the village. It has a stony personality but a perfumed nose of violets and violet pastille with silty tannins and good grip. It matured in oak vats to polish those village tannins. It's very complete and opens up in the glass nicely as it's a little more austere than the one from Villanueva. This is the more tannic of the village reds. 9965 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2024. I tasted wines from 2022 (a more Mediterranean and intense year) and 2023 (a cooler year of elegance freshness and precision) with a perfect cool September and also rain that improved the quality of the year after a very warm August. 2022 is their last vintage of the El Reventón single-vineyard wine when they started planting new vines and building their new winery. 2023 is the first year vinified in the brand-new winery. There will be more changes in 2024: continuing the plantation of more vines downsizing (less regional wine and more village mostly from purchased grapes) and developing their farm in the estate around Rumbo al Norte. In 2022 they are extending the élevage of the single-vineyard crus Iruelas Umbrías Rey Moro and Rumbo al Norte. And they see the need for new projects in Gredos and to attract people to come and make wine in the region. They see it as a threat for the region. There are only 400 hectares in the DO Cebreros (42 hectares planted in the last five years nothing in the previous 40) but only 150 produced grapes last year. The Gredos region needs to be developed. Published: Nov 21 2024
James Suckling: 94 Points
A brambly and open expression from Comando G with scented ethereal smoke agave white pepper and bergamot. If you enjoy drinking mezcal then you?ll probably find some similarities here. On the palate this is a round and fruity with an abundance of chalky tannins even though fruitiness is not part of its nature. A structured red from Navatalgordo. Drink now.
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