Winemaker Notes
Blend: 100% Garnacha Tinta
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Aromas of violets, wild strawberries, cherries, oranges and baking spices. Medium-bodied with round tannins and fresh acidity. Creamy, silky texture. Caressing and long.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The single-vineyard bottling 2019 El Cerro Brujo is expressive, open and aromatic with a vibrant palate with very fine tannins and pungent flavors. It was produced with fully ripe Garnacha from 0.23 hectares of south-facing old vines planted on sandy granite soils on a slope that cannot be worked with machines or even animals and has to be worked by hand. The 100% full clusters fermented in two open-top 500-liter oak barrels with indigenous yeasts and were foot trodden and then put through a soft vinification with soft extraction and 28 days of maceration. It's 14.1% alcohol, less ripe than the previous year, and the wine shows it. It matured in a 500-liter oak barrel and three grass demijohns for 14 months.
Rating:93+
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.