Javier Revert - Forada Valencia 2022 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $86.00
| Producer | Javier Revert |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Rioja |
| Varietal | Garnacha |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 10271 |
| Size | 750ml |
Javier Revert Description
"The new kid on the block ... It's spicier, with notes of aromatic herbs, but it's a little bit framed by the oak with the core of blood orange and an ethereal side. The palate has abundant, slightly dusty tannins, chalky but weightless. I look forward to future vintages..." - Luis Gutiérrez, 2021 vintage
Since taking over his family’s ancestral vineyard, La Pla de Micalet, in 2014, Javi Revert has been expanding it and replanting some of its abandoned terraces. Where he has recovered old vines of Arcos, he has planted Garnacha to compliment it. Foradà is the result – a single-parcel wine with the lively fruit of Garnacha anchored by the savory, lifted, and complex nature of Arcos. Above all, however, is the unmistakable stamp on the site, which provides freshness, focus, and fine-grained tannins.
Wine Advocate: 96 Points
The 2022 Foradà is only the second vintage from a plot planted in 2018 on old terraces at 800 meters above sea level a north exposition planted with Arcos and Garnacha. It fermented in concrete with 100% full clusters and indigenous yeasts and matured in a 500-liter barrel and glass demijohns for 18 months. It's very pale a constant in this wine with a nose of ripe wild strawberries very attractive showing the effect of the very warm and dry year in the aromatics where there's more ripeness than in the 2023 I tasted next to it. There's also more evolution here a little à la Rayas hinting on notes of brick dust and forest floor a little decadent and baroque with fragility. It has 14% alcohol a pH of 3.57 and five grams of acidity. It's very Mediterranean. Only 750 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2024. Javi Revert planted another three hectares of Arcos close to Simeta in 2023 so he now has 12.42 hectares all in his village of La Font de la Figuera and a potential for 39000 kilograms of grapes and a theoretical 30000 bottles from the 2028 harvest. He produced 20000 bottles in 2024 coming up from the 15000 in 2023. After a very warm and dry 2022 2023 was saved by the rain at the end of August for him the new style of "cooler" Mediterranean vintages freshened up by the rain and he achieved wines with finesse and freshness. The 2023s have the advantage of a new barrel room at a constant 15 degrees Celsius and stable 80% humidity and the élevage is a lot more precise. Published: Jan 09 2025
