92-93 Points/Drink 2013-2024" - David Schildknecht
Plunged daily before basket pressing to old French oak barriques for 11 months elevage
before blending and maturation occurs over six months in mature French oak barrique and hogsheads
however they are very keen not to put a winemaker’s stamp on - to leave the wine un-signed
Piron being well placed with 7ha
Telmo Rodríguez ‘Pegaso Barrancos de Pizzara’ Garnacha 2020 eola-amity-hills 92-93 Points/Drink 2013-2024" - DavidA 'barranco' is a radical vineyard, and they really are: brown schist, ravine steep, ultra high altitude, no 'soil'to speak of, and quite minerally with lots of quartz. Fruit from old, niggardly centenarian bush vines, now farmed biodynamically, is now gently handled in large older French oak and concrete eggs. Smells of brick dust, floral red fruits, pimiento and woodspice. Big never so beautiful it has space, grace and wisdom exceeding extract and