Terroir Sense Fronteres, Vertebra de la Figuera de Montsant, 2018

Terroir Sense Fronteres, Vertebra de la Figuera de Montsant, 2018

Red Wine from Other Spain, Spain
by Terroir Sense Fronteres
$46.99
Available for Same Day Delivery (or Pickup) in Manhattan.
Description

100% Grenache. Featherweight and elegant: opening up a bottle, you’re greeted with notes of red cherry, fennel and granite on the nose, and on the palate, there’s lingering acidity, barely there tannins and a mélange of red fruits and minerals. Although there’s plenty to contemplate, this playful wine offers lots of immediate pleasure. The vines range from 40-80 years of age, and are all planted to pink clay and chalky gypsum.

Delicately perfumed with cherry, licorice, violets, mint and granitic minerality, this is a delightful and complex wine that demonstrates the suave, genteel character Grenache is capable of when in the right hands. Its texture is like silk, yet there's an exuberance of fruit and minerals belying its lithe body. A true standout.
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Professional Reviews

Robert Parker

RP 93
"This comes from three vineyards at high altitude on clay-rich soils that have a limestone mother rock. It fermented and matured in concrete vats and has the chalky texture of the tannins, and perhaps the concrete amplifies the earthy/chalky sensations. This is an elegant Garnacha that is floral, spicy and transparent, very elegant; it was picked early and bottled with 13% alcohol. The palate is medium to full-bodied, with very fine tannins and the freshness from the altitude, the cool year and the soils. Great Garnacha. 6,500 bottles produced." -Luis Gutierrez

Wine Spectator

WS 94
"This is a mountain wine from pure garnacha with dark berries, smoked tea and flowers. Full body. Tight and ultra fine tannins. Chewy yet caressing. A complex and complete wine." -James Suckling

What Polaner Selections has to say about this wine...

VARIETAL NOTES
100% Grenache
ORGANIC
Practicing
NATURAL
Practicing
VINEYARD
40-80 year old vines on the top of La Figuera mountain.
ORIENTATION
700 meters in elevation oriented to the North and Northeast.
SOIL
Red clay with layers of gypsum
VITICULTURE
Bush pruned vines and organic viticulture.
VINIFICATION
Whole cluster fermentation with wild yeast in cement. No pigeage or remontage. The wine undergoes a short maceration (approximately 10 days) after which they are pressed and allowed to finish fermentation.
AGING
aged in cement for 6 months before bottling
PRODUCTION
7,000 bottles

Details

  • Country

    Spain

  • Region

    Other Spain

  • Grape Variety

    Grenache

  • Vintage

    2018

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Style

    Elegant , Juicy , Minerally

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied