Winemaker Notes
Bluish ruby red. Notes of kumquat, jasmine and stone. It has a cool texture that is both meaty and crunchy. Silky and solemn tannins envelope the palate with good length.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2023 Las Alas de Frontonio La Tejera is super serious, complete and harmonious, with power and elegance. It keeps the profile from the previous years, with similar parameters of alcohol and freshness. It's perfumed and nuanced, floral and citrusy, with faint spice and earthiness, serious and mineral. Th palate is seamless, precise and chiseled, symmetric and balanced, with super elegant tannins. This wine evolves very nicely in bottle. It is very precise.
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Vinous
The 2023 Garnatxa–Macabeo La Tejera from Aragón opens with aromas of herbs, dried flowers, pomegranate and a hint of gunpowder over black tea undertones. Compact yet weightless, it offers a talc-like texture and subtle complexity. This modern, lightly structured red has a distinctive personality that gradually reveals its charm in the glass. The magic lies in how the Macabeo complements and further lightens the profile of Aragón’s sun-kissed Garnachas, resulting in a wine that feels both precise and effortless.
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James Suckling
This has floral aromas of fruit, pomegranates, citrus and underripe peaches. The palate has subtle firmness complemented by a broad yet elegant thread of fruit. It’s very compact, with lots going on and lots to unfold. Medium- to full-bodied with subtle concentration and firm tannins. Drink or hold.
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.