Usually my favorite here, the 2022 Garnacha de Viña Bonita was produced with grapes from the vineyard that produces their most elegant wine, a plot on white granite soils whose grapes fermented with 80% full clusters and a long maceration of six weeks. The élevage was in three used 600-liter barrels. It has a pale and bright ruby color and a complex and intriguing nose with notes of meat broth and decayed violets plus the usual aromatic herbs and spice. The palate has the most elegant tannins of the 2022s, fine-grained and with a chalky and dry sensation in the finish. It has 14.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.4 and 5.07 grams of acidity. It is delicious and elegant. 2,200 bottles represents the largest production ever from this vineyard. It was bottled in May 2024.- LG

The 2022 Garnacha Viña Bonita comes from Gredos, a subzone of San Martín de Valdeiglesias. Aged for 12 months in used large barrels or foudres, it opens with intriguing wild herb aromas followed by ripe guinda, dried flowers and cherry. Whole-bunch fermentation shapes the nose and palate, providing fine-grained tannins with grip, good freshness and a juicy touch. -- Joaquín Hidalgo