#8 on Hi-Time's Top Spanish Wines of 2024
We love the simple pleasures of this quintessentially old-school red: deliciously savory, fruity, suave and mid-weight, it's a traditional taste of the Mediterranean mountains of Montsant. This is pure Garnacha, sourced from higher-altitude vines, then fermented and aged in old-fashioned underground concrete vats for a brief 9 months. Flavors combine in a balanced swirl of umami-tinged baked plum and strawberry, orange oil, peppercorn, tobacco, sage and developing leather. The complexity and graceful openness make it a serious everyday wine! The Sindicat La Figuera is a group of Montsant growers, formed in 1932, but given new life by star winemaker Rene Barbier of Clos Mogador.
WINE ADVOCATE 91 POINTS - "The characterful and honest unoaked Garnacha red 2021 Sindicat La Figuera was produced in a very simple and traditional way—fermented with a short maceration in underground concrete vats, where the wine matured with abundant rackings. 2021 was a cool vintage, and the wine has 1% less alcohol than the 2020 I tasted next to it; this wine comes through as fresher and with better balance. It's more delicate, elegant within the rustic and straightforward style they look for, with very fine tannins and very clean and focused flavors. A great improvement. Production grew to some 60,000 bottles. It was bottled in August 2022 after maturing exclusively in concrete."
We love the simple pleasures of this quintessentially old-school red: deliciously savory, fruity, suave and mid-weight, it's a traditional taste of the Mediterranean mountains of Montsant. This is pure Garnacha, sourced from higher-altitude vines, then fermented and aged in old-fashioned underground concrete vats for a brief 9 months. Flavors combine in a balanced swirl of umami-tinged baked plum and strawberry, orange oil, peppercorn, tobacco, sage and developing leather. The complexity and graceful openness make it a serious everyday wine! The Sindicat La Figuera is a group of Montsant growers, formed in 1932, but given new life by star winemaker Rene Barbier of Clos Mogador.
WINE ADVOCATE 91 POINTS - "The characterful and honest unoaked Garnacha red 2021 Sindicat La Figuera was produced in a very simple and traditional way—fermented with a short maceration in underground concrete vats, where the wine matured with abundant rackings. 2021 was a cool vintage, and the wine has 1% less alcohol than the 2020 I tasted next to it; this wine comes through as fresher and with better balance. It's more delicate, elegant within the rustic and straightforward style they look for, with very fine tannins and very clean and focused flavors. A great improvement. Production grew to some 60,000 bottles. It was bottled in August 2022 after maturing exclusively in concrete."
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