#4 on Hi-Time's Top Spanish Wines of 2024
This red is one of Spain's most distinctive wines, an intense mountain Garnacha with a firm, grippy structure and leaner fruit weight. It comes from the, the mountains west of Madrid, deep in the heart of the country. While Garnacha from most of Spain has a plush, rounded fruit character, the cool mountain heights restrain that tendency. It's a challenging place in which to make wine, but Comando G is up to the task, as they grew up here! They decided that the character of their wines would be best in an old-fashioned way, like the classics of Rhone or Burgundy: natural fermentations with whole grape clusters and long, gentle extractions from the skins.
Even with the relatively leaner fruit weight here in the mountains, the warmer, drier growing season of 2022 made for a wine that's packed with wild, raw character and engaging contrasts of intensity and nuance! Underlying it all are darkly-shaded notes of roasted strawberry and earthy, stony creosote (smoky, iodine-like). With a slow unfurling in the glass, you can find soft, mineral and drying floral aromas drifting above a bold core of worn leather, juicy bright red fruits, savory red olive and an herbaceous balsam spiciness. The finish is broadly tapered and drying, with persistent spicy, roasted and fruity flavor echoes, and a firm structure of zesty, grippy tannins and a warming, sunny brightness and that pull everything to a close. The 2022 Rozas almost feels like a youthful, traditional Italian Nebbiolo! Give this one a couple of hours in the decanter to let it come together, or hold for years to come! Try this with grilled lamb chops, smoked turkey or stuffed red peppers.
WINE ADVOCATE 95 POINTS - "... In this warmer vintage, they did a softer vinification, with less maceration and more fermentation without skins, to avoid over-ripeness and notes of black fruit in the wine. It has more fruit and some silty tannins, which are more like Italian tannins in the more Mediterranean years like this 2022. This village is more subject to the changes in the years... juicier and with more marked tannins in the warmer ones. It has 14.5% alcohol and is more jovial, definitely not banal. 10,992 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2023."
This red is one of Spain's most distinctive wines, an intense mountain Garnacha with a firm, grippy structure and leaner fruit weight. It comes from the
Even with the relatively leaner fruit weight here in the mountains, the warmer, drier growing season of 2022 made for a wine that's packed with wild, raw character and engaging contrasts of intensity and nuance! Underlying it all are darkly-shaded notes of roasted strawberry and earthy, stony creosote (smoky, iodine-like). With a slow unfurling in the glass, you can find soft, mineral and drying floral aromas drifting above a bold core of worn leather, juicy bright red fruits, savory red olive and an herbaceous balsam spiciness. The finish is broadly tapered and drying, with persistent spicy, roasted and fruity flavor echoes, and a firm structure of zesty, grippy tannins and a warming, sunny brightness and that pull everything to a close. The 2022 Rozas almost feels like a youthful, traditional Italian Nebbiolo! Give this one a couple of hours in the decanter to let it come together, or hold for years to come! Try this with grilled lamb chops, smoked turkey or stuffed red peppers.
WINE ADVOCATE 95 POINTS - "... In this warmer vintage, they did a softer vinification, with less maceration and more fermentation without skins, to avoid over-ripeness and notes of black fruit in the wine. It has more fruit and some silty tannins, which are more like Italian tannins in the more Mediterranean years like this 2022. This village is more subject to the changes in the years... juicier and with more marked tannins in the warmer ones. It has 14.5% alcohol and is more jovial, definitely not banal. 10,992 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2023."
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