En Sus Trece 2018 750ml

100% Old Vine Garnacha

Unevolved and intense colour with light purple rim. Pronounced cassis and cigar box nose with lifted oral perfume, violets and black olives. Full and unctuous on the palate with intense black fruit characters, well-integrated oak and a long sumptuous finish. From high altitude old vine plantings on slate and quartzite soils.

“As usual, this Garnacha persists en sus trece (Spanish expression meaning stand your ground) and keeps showing the soul of this grape. It is ripe and has dark fruit, plums, black cherries and cedar aromas. A fruit bomb! Juicy with tense acidity. Lovely tannin management, pleasantly balanced. Perhaps, in Norrel’s wines, this is the one in which I see all his authenticity.” Ferran Centelles for jancisrobinson.com