Las Ánimas

The Garnacha 2020 Las Ánimas was produced with the grapes from three small plots in the lieu-dit Las Herguijuelas in Villanueva de Ávila, a total of a little less than half a hectare of old vines from a northeast exposition on a plication of the Las Pedreras hill that they have identified as having a different personality, so they decided to keep those grapes separate. It fermented with some full clusters and indigenous yeasts and matured in a 500-liter French oak barrel for seven months. It's 14% alcohol and has good freshness and ripeness. It's juicy and very young, with almost reminiscences from the fermentation. It's very floral with pungent notes of violets, higher pitched, subtler, more elegant and more complex even at this very early age. They told me they thought it was earthier, but I found it more mineral, with hints of gunpowder and forest floor, without the rusticity of the earthiness. It's juicy, tasty and silky, with very fine tannins, and it finishes dry and long. Only 600 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2021.