Comando G Rozas 1er Cru 2023
Comando G Rozas 1er Cru 2023
PRE-SALE - Wines Arrive late December 2025
(Now 2 vineyards only) Rozas Village comes from 5 vineyard plots of Garnacha located in a narrow valley formed by the seasonal Arroyo Mingogil at the foot of Cerro de los Corzos. Situated close to the Grand Cru Las Umbrias parcel and the source for Mingogil 1er Cru, this corner of Rozas de Puerto Real shares a variation on the theme of lithe and winsome mountain Garnacha, with bright forward red fruit enlivened with minerality and scent of mountain herbs.
95VM/95WA 2022 Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez, Published: Nov 21, 2024 The last vintage of the Rozas 1er Cru as it is now is the 2021, because the wine changes in 2022. The 2021 Rozas 1er Cru, a lieu-dit red from the village of Rozas de Puerto Real, is from the same plots as in previous years but cropped from a cool year. They used full clusters with long macerations, an infusion, and it aged in large oak foudres for one year. It's a serious, austere and cold vintage for this wine, which is narrow, mineral and sharp but with full development of flavors, as they picked the grapes at very good ripeness, and the wine finished with 14% alcohol. With time in the glass, it developed some Rhône-ish meaty notes. It has very fine and elegant tannins, rounder than those in warmer years. It feels superb. 14,761 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2023.
Variety: Garnacha
Age of Vines: 90
Farming: In conversion to organic & biodynamic
Soil: Sandy granite, silt
Altitude: 900 meters
Fermentation: Hand harvested, Fermentations in open oak and concrete vats, gentle maceration and with no use of pump-over or aggressive extraction, indigenous yeasts, 45 day maceration
Aging: 12 months in French oak foudres
