Comando G - Rozas 1er Cru Garnacha 2021 (750ml)
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
The last vintage of the Rozas 1er Cru as it is now is the 2021 because the wine changes in 2022. The 2021 Rozas 1er Cru a lieu-dit red from the village of Rozas de Puerto Real is from the same plots as in previous years but cropped from a cool year. They used full clusters with long macerations an infusion and it aged in large oak foudres for one year. It's a serious austere and cold vintage for this wine which is narrow mineral and sharp but with full development of flavors as they picked the grapes at very good ripeness and the wine finished with 14% alcohol. With time in the glass it developed some Rhône-ish meaty notes. It has very fine and elegant tannins rounder than those in warmer years. It feels superb. 14761 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2023. I tasted the latest bottled wines from Comando G that are hitting the market now the regional and village wines from 2022 and the single-vineyard 2021s. The two vintages are extremely different a more Mediterranean 2022 and a cooler more Atlantic 2021. This is the finest collection of wines I have ever tasted from Comando G each of them with a different personality more and more evident each year. Published: Dec 07 2023
