Winemaker Notes
Clear, medium intensity, ruby color wine.Clean, high intensity aromas of red fruit such us raspberry, strawberry, red cheery, also black pepper and earthy notes. Dry and fresh, soft tannins and medium body. Red fruits flavors, mineral hints and a long finish.Ideal accompaniment for cured ham, stews, game and meat dishes.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The second vintage produced in collaboration with Michelini is the 2020 Nat'Cool. It was produced with Graciano that was picked early to achieve a wine with 12.4% alcohol and a low pH of 3.38 (and 5.55 grams of acidity measured in tartaric acid). The destemmed grapes fermented in concrete and stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and matured in concrete for six months. There's an herbal quality to this that makes it quite different. It has a medium body and round tannins and some pungent flavors.
Graciano has been best known as a blending grape used in Rioja to add color, depth and perfume to Tempranillo. It also thrives in the nearby region of Navarra and a few dedicated winemakers in California and Australia are making singe varietal bottlings certainly worthy of checking out! Graciano’s black fruit and lush tannins make it a perfect pairing to grilled or smoked red meat, as well as game.
Just north of Spain’s famous Rioja region, Navarra excels in the production of full and fruit-dominant reds and good quality, dry rosés. Garnacha holds most of the land under vine, with Tempranillo coming in second place.