Bernabeleva, Vina Bonita 2023

Usually my favorite here, the 2022 Garnacha de Viña Bonita was produced with grapes from the vineyard that produces their most elegant wine, a plot on white granite soils whose grapes fermented with 80% full clusters and a long maceration of six weeks. The élevage was in three used 600-liter barrels. It has a pale and bright ruby color and a complex and intriguing nose with notes of meat broth and decayed violets plus the usual aromatic herbs and spice. The palate has the most elegant tannins of the 2022s, fine-grained and with a chalky and dry sensation in the finish. It has 14.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.4 and 5.07 grams of acidity. It is delicious and elegant.

Jeg kunne gentage min seneste note: ”Stilen er over mod châteauneuf, men stadig friskere. Marc Isart og fætrene Juan og Santiago Bulnes rammer dog perfekt den magiske fornemmelse af granitsand i smagen – jeg ved, det er sludder og vrøvl, men for pokker! Det rasper som dugvåd granit varmet af solen med knust tranebær på den ru overflade”. Nu udvider jeg med helstøbt frisksød næse, bittersød mundfornemmelse, hvor de 14,5 % kun hjælper vinen op i mundhulen. Fantastisk garnacha.

“Smuk, smuk vin, ren, skarpt skåret, mineralsk, krydret, kalket med generøs rød frugt. Meget klar TESTVINDER. ”

The 2021 Garnacha de Viña Bonita is pure Garnacha from a plot of very old vines planted in 1929 on very shallow and compact granite soils at 735 meters in altitude with north-facing exposure. It is always subtle and elegant. It fermented with 8% full clusters and indigenous yeasts in oak vats for over six weeks and matured in two well-seasoned 600-liter oak barrels. This has very low alcohol, 13%, lower than in other years, and the wine feels more delicate and fine-boned, floral and ethereal. The palate shows elegance and refinement, with the backbone of granite minerality that lifts it up. It has good freshness and balance that give it length.

"Tudsegamle garnacha-stokke i granitsand, fodtrampede helklaser og 14 måneder på store fade. Utroligt, det stadigt ikke koster mere! Lige nu noget af Spaniens svedigste vin. Den har garnacha-frugtsødme og fedme, men optræder slank, letløbende og ultraaromatisk, silkeagtigt, pikant syrlig og gnistrende mineralsk. Blændende god garnacha og mesterlig vin i det hele taget"