Winemaker Notes
Blend: 95% Garnacha & 5% Macabeo
Professional Ratings
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Vinous
The 2023 Garnatxa Supersónico, from an old vineyard in Viver de la Sierra, macerates on skins for 50 days. It delivers floral notes, blood orange, violet and wild herbs, though the oak is a little prominent at present. The palate offers light grip, juicy freshness and flavorful fruit. This high-altitude red preserves fruit and expression without denying its sunlit origins, seeking to balance terroir character with stylistic intent.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The red 2023 Supersónico comes from a single vineyard at 1,000 meters in altitude, planted with Garnacha and around 5% Macabeo, which fermented together with 100% full clusters and matured in foudres and oak casks. It has a bright ruby color and a perfumed nose that is floral and spicy, more reductive than oxidative, subtle and elegant. It has finesse—finer than Elástico—purity of flavors, some bright red berry fruit, very fine tannins and very good freshness, reflecting the higher altitude. It has energy and light. This is really good and overdelivers for the price.
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James Suckling
This shows restrained aromas of burnt pumpkin seeds and dried flowers. It’s very elegant and composed. The palate is floral, with blood orange flavors. Very vibrant, medium-bodied and energetic yet subtle, with ethereal fruit. Very approachable.
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.