Winemaker Notes
This wine pairs excellently with pork chops, rabbit ravioli, or roasted leg of duck.
Blend: 65% Callet, 20% Mantonegre-Fogoneu, 15% Syrah
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 AN/2 is mostly Callet with small amounts of Fogoneu and Manto Negro grapes fermented in 4,000-liter oak vats and cement tanks with yeasts they have isolated from their own vineyards. It matured for 13 months in oak barrels, mostly French but with some 20% made of American oak and 10% of Central European oak, but 10% of the volume wasn't put in barrique. It's fragrant and perfumed, with generous spices and smoke, but also flowers and wild berries. It feels quite fluid, more agile, with good balance.
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.