Winemaker Notes
The wine is clear with a medium intensity ruby color, presenting clean and highly aromatic notes of blackberry, blackcurrant, black pepper, cedar, and subtle earthy nuances, while on the palate it is dry and fresh with soft tannins and a medium body, offering black fruit flavors and mineral hints that carry into a long, elegant finish.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Racy strawberries, raspberries, pomegranates and white pepper. Beguilingly light, but the tannins are hefty despite the soft extraction. There’s ripeness, but also crunchiness and etherealness. The long, brambly and vibrant finish shows its drinkable nature. Drink or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Malayeto surprised me. This wine is always harmonious and goes beyond the variety even in a warm, dry and ripe year like 2022. And it has a harmony and balance, coming through as clean and expressive, with precision and definition. This is the 10th vintage for this plot of Garnacha grown on an alluvial terrace. It fermented in stainless steel and concrete and matured in a 4,000-liter oak vat and 13 500-liter French oak barrels for 12 months.
Rating: 93+
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.
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.