Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This is really tight, polished and structured. It’s medium-bodied with tight tannins and a long, racy finish. White pepper and stone. A slightly more structured nature than Gedos. One of the best I have had from here.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
2018 was one of the finest recent vintages in Gredos, and the 2018 Pegaso Arrebatacapas, a Garnacha from brown slate soils, showed superbly. It fermented in oak, stainless steel vats and clay pots with indigenous yeasts and matured in 500- and 600-liter French oak barrels for 18 months. It's a little more powerful and perhaps with more extraction than the Pegaso Pizarra; it might need more time in bottle. This is a little darker (in profile, not necessarily in color), closed, austere and mineral with more tannin, more Piamonte if you like, more powerful, with an earthier mouthfeel. It comes from one of the most extreme vineyards in the appellation, and it makes sense that the wine is also more extreme.
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.