$36.98
ROBERT PARKER 92 POINTS -
"The 2007 Finca Terrerazo is made up of 85% Bobal (60-year-old vines), 10% Tempranillo, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon aged Read More...
for 20 months in French oak. It offers up a distinctive high-toned perfume of cherry and creme de cassis with background oak. Creamy-textured on the palate, it has loads of succulent, ripe fruit, outstanding concentration, incipient complexity, and a 45-second finish. Give it 2-3 years of additional cellaring and drink it from 2012 to 2022. Bodegas Mustiguillo is located in the Valencia region where owner/winemaker Toni Sarrion has championed the renaissance of the Bobal grape."
$14.98
WINE ADVOCATE 90 POINTS - "
The entry level 2008 Mestis is composed of 50% Bobal with the balance Tempranillo, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot. Read More...
It was naturally fermented and aged for 10 months in French oak. Purple colored with an exotic aromatic array of underbrush, espresso, black cherry, and blackberry, on the palate spice notes and layered black fruits emerge. Smooth-textured, savory, and well-balanced, it may well evolve for 1-2 years but can be enjoyed now and over the next 5 years."
$21.95
The challenge for the family was trying to convey in this wine the complexity of three vineyards, La Casilla(predominantly limestone) and Senionita and Zafranar (sandy-limestone). Read More...
Their triumph materializes withPonce's vintage of La Casilla 2008.
A complex nose with abundant fruit and spices. In the mouth, this is a fresh wine, round, long and with balanced acidity due to its well-integrated tannins. Once the alcoholic fermentationis completed via whole-cluster maceration/fermentation, the wine goes directly to barrel where the malolacticfermentation continues. The aging of the wine is done in barrels of different capacities. All oak is French and holds the wine for 11 months. It may be cellared for 10 years, certain to gain complexity and nuances. It is notclarified, nor filtered, in an effort to preserve the qualities of the misunderstood varietal, Bobal. Juan Antonio Ponce has found the nobility in Bobal and he is widely recognized as the young master of Manchuela.
A complex nose with abundant fruit and spices. In the mouth, this is a fresh wine, round, long and with balanced acidity due to its well-integrated tannins. Once the alcoholic fermentationis completed via whole-cluster maceration/fermentation, the wine goes directly to barrel where the malolacticfermentation continues. The aging of the wine is done in barrels of different capacities. All oak is French and holds the wine for 11 months. It may be cellared for 10 years, certain to gain complexity and nuances. It is notclarified, nor filtered, in an effort to preserve the qualities of the misunderstood varietal, Bobal. Juan Antonio Ponce has found the nobility in Bobal and he is widely recognized as the young master of Manchuela.
