Winemaker Notes
Opaque garnet in color with ruby reflections, this wine offers wonderfully rich and layered aromas of damson fruit, crushed blackberries, leather, violets, smoke and spice. An is as sumptuous on the palate as it is in its bouquet, with mouth-filling texture and concentration of flavors.
This wine is best enjoyed on special occasions, with slow cooked meals such as pot roast, BBQ, and hickory-smoked ribs.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 ÀN was produced mainly with Callet and small percentages of Fogoneu and Mantonegro. It fermented in 4,000-liter oak vats and small concrete vats with the yeasts they have selected for five years from the Son Negre Vineyard, and it matured in new 225-liter French oak barrels for 12 months. It has a beautiful pale and delicate color, and the oak feels better integrated than previous vintages, but I still think new oak is a killer for these local varieties. It must have been the year, as the wine seems to have taken it better; it's ashy and balsamic, spicy (clove), toasty and smoky, with hints of incense, but it wants to show the floral quality of the Callet. It has 13.38% alcohol and mellow acidity.
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.