Monte La Sarda Garnacha 2014
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These vines have been cultivated in unique climate conditions, very beneficial for Garnacha growing, with extremely hot temperatures in summer and very cold winters. As a result we have a unique terroir with a typicity and charcter not possible to find in any other place.
Bodegas Sierra de Guara in collaboration with wine maker Manuel Cristobal started this interesting project in 2005. Monte La Sarda is from the obscure area of Bajo Aragon (Lower Aragon), about 125 miles west of Barcelona. The grapes are cultivated at an altitude of 500 to 600 meters, 95% sunny days and 350-400 mm of rainfall. Low humidity and cooling inland winds makes it ideal for the Garnacha vine to grow in these chalky clay soils. The vines used for the wine Monte la Sarda are 50 years old.
Spanish red wine is known for being bold, heady, rustic and age-worthy, Spain is truly a one-of-a-kind wine-producing nation. A great majority of the country is hot, arid and drought-ridden, and since irrigation has only been recently introduced and (controversially) accepted, viticulture has sustained—and flourished—only through a great understanding of Spain’s particular conditions. Large spacing between vines allows each enough resources to survive and as a result, the country has the most acreage under vine compared to any other country, but is usually third in production.
Of the Spanish red wines, the most planted and respected grape variety is Tempranillo, the star of Spain’s Rioja and Ribera del Duero regions. Priorat specializes in bold red blends, Jumilla has gained global recognition for its single varietal Monastrell and Utiel-Requena has garnered recent attention for its reds made of Bobal.