Bernabeleva’s ‘villages’ Garnacha blend is made from fruit grown across the estate’s parcels. Across different soils, orientations and microclimates, the vine age ranges from 50 to 90 years, providing a radiant Grenache that profoundly reflects the terroir and its high-country origins.
Each site is slowly vinified (40-60 days in skins) and aged separately in a combination of 500-litre casks, stainless steel and concrete tanks—depending on the features of the vintage—and this wine generally sees a measure of whole bunches for one or more of the parcels. After 12 months of aging, the wine is bottled without filtration.
With this wine, Bulnes aims to bottle the ‘spirit’ of San Martín de Valdeiglesias. Flaunting the Pinot-esque side of mountain Garnacha’s personality, it is a terribly sophisticated wine for the price. Enticing perfumes of red fruits and flowers, a gently layered but crunchy palate woven together by sleek, rocky tannins and a long, perfumed finish—a wine of superb definition, freshness and savoury finesse.