2024 Zorzal, Garnacha Blanca

Garnacha kan også være hvid! Og se nu her hvor vellykket, det kan være. Stammende fra Fitoro, spontangæret i stål og siden lagret i cement og foudre, sammen med enkelte, ny 500 liters fade og cementæg. Levende, frisk og smuk gulfrugtig i næsen viser den citrus, blomster, sæbe, pære, citrongræs, saftige gule æbler og flint. Fyldig og ganske righoldig, flintet frisk og med lime-pæredreven syre, salt stenethed, yderst diskret fadrundhed og mundsvandsdrivende friskhed, er dette et helt vidunderligt eksempel på en druesort, som kun få lykkes med. (-2030+) ***

93+ points Robert Parker Wine Advocate: "They picked the grapes for the varietal white 2024 Garnacha Blanca quite early to produce the fresh profile they like, with 12.6% alcohol, a pH of 3.18 and 6.45 grams of acidity, thus avoiding the heavy and alcoholic wines Garnacha Blanca can produce when picked too late. They used grapes from the village of Fitero to ferment it in stainless with indigenous yeasts, and it matured mostly in concrete but also in a 2,000-liter Stockinger foudre, a 1,500-liter used foudre, five new 500-liter French oak barrels and two 700-liter concrete eggs. It's super pale and more reductive, flinty, still very young and serious. It has a clean, elegant and precise nose, with good freshness and less volume, sharper and precise, more vertical, with great finesse. It makes you salivate. They are moving toward more time in bottle and less in wood/concrete for their wines in general. They really like 2024 for whites. This wine really transcends the price. 23,200 bottles were produced. It was bottled in July 2025."