Winemaker Notes
100% organic, Garnacha Tintorera with vines of 40 + years of age.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
This black-cherrycolored wine has a fruit-forward bouquet of red currant and raspberry. Berry notes on the palate are met by notes of eucalyptus, butterscotch, clove and crumbled sage leaf encased in a sheath of plush tannins.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Ternario 10 is also Garnacha Tintorera from a specific plot within the same vineyard that produces the Ternario 2. It fermented with 100% full clusters in 5,000-liter oak vats for one month and matured in 400- and 500-liter oak barrels for 11 months. This is clearly a riper year than 2018 and 2019, and the wine shows it, but without excess. It has aromas of black olives, Mediterranean herbs and ripe black fruit, juicy and tasty. 10,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2019.
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James Suckling
Lots of cherries with some floral and almond character. It’s medium-bodied with soft tannins and a medium fruity finish. From organically grown grapes. Drink now.
The most famous of the rare, red-fleshed grape varieties, Alicante Bouschet is known as a Teinturier grape. While most red grapes have red skin but clear flesh or pulp, the French, Alicante Bouschet and the Georgian (country) variety called, Saperavi, both have red. These make intensely hued, full-bodied red wines that take to oak well and can stand some time in the cellar. Somm Secret—While originally the product of a French crossing (Petit Bouschet and Grenache) of the late 1800s, today Alicante Bouchet grows widely in Spain and is gaining notoriety in Portugal.
The Moors gave it the name, ‘Manxa,’ which fittingly means ‘parched earth.’ La Mancha, the largest Spanish wine producing region in all of Spain, is one of its hottest and driest. Sturdy and drought-resistant white varieietes like Airen, Viura and Verdejo thrive in this environment.