Winemaker Notes
Grenache grapes from La Figuera produce wines with a unique color range, tender and fluid; with a fresh aroma, of flowers, orange peel, incense, as well as wide range of white fruit, citrus, very fresh. Its high alcohol content together with its extraordinary acidity, helps the wine to age perfect. On the palate it is soft, with harmony but the taste development goes in crescendo, and it leaves you with an exceptional aftertaste.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
A stemmy nose with wild berries, dried Mediterranean herbs and nice touches of sauerkraut and ripe, sweet red berries. This is firm and textured on the palate, with round, minerally fruit gliding through to a lengthy finish. Drink now or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Com Tu is a village red from La Figuera in Montsant, from a higher-altitude place with different soils, limestone and clay, produced with Garnacha from three plots. Forty percent of the wine fermented with semi-carbonic maceration and 60% with a long destemmed maceration, and it matured in old foudres and concrete for 18 months. This is the wine started by the youngest son, Anderson, now continued by his brothers, as he's moved to gastronomy and now looking into starting a wine project in Terra Alta. This has a very classical nose, with notes of smoked bacon that transported me to the Rhône. It comes from a vineyard that is similar to the ones used by Christian Barbier to make his Deunido, but this is extremely different, and he started working with cover crops. They used a new label this year. Christian told me it was inspired by the wines from Viña Tondonia (it also made me think of the old Masia Barril labels), showing the village (it's a village wine) and with a traditional feeling to it. The wine has a Mediterranean profile with plenty of aromatic herbs, decayed flowers and an earthy but subtle touch. The palate is medium-bodied, with a textured mouthfeel and slightly dusty tannins.
Grenache thrives in any warm, Mediterranean climate where ample sunlight allows its clusters to achieve full phenolic ripeness. While Grenache's birthplace is Spain (there called Garnacha), today it is more recognized as the key player in the red blends of the Southern Rhône, namely Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Côtes du Rhône and its villages. Somm Secret—The Italian island of Sardinia produces bold, rustic, single varietal Grenache (there called Cannonau). California, Washington and Australia have achieved found success with Grenache, both flying solo and in blends.
