2012 Tumba del Rey Moro
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This is a new wine first released in 2012 from a vineyard close to the grave of a Moor king, hence its name. The 2012 Tumba del Rey Moro comes from a north-facing, 1,100-meter-altitude vineyard that is located in village of Villanueva de Ávila. This is a half-hectare of vineyard with ungrafted, head-pruned Garnacha on cool, pure granite soils. It produces very light, ethereal, elegant and cool wines like this 2012. This could be their most extreme and telluric wine; very pale and sharp as a knife, with elusive aromas of earth, minerals, flower petals and a citric, blood-orange note. The palate is even sharper, delineated and laser cut with high acidity, not very concentrated, but really powerful, intense and wild. This is Garnacha in its most extreme expression, and is today the most aromatic and impressive of all the Comando G reds. Is this the big brother of Las Umbrías?
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
About the producer
Created by Fernando García and Daniel Gómez Jiménez-Landi in 2008, Comando G is one of Spain’s leading producers. Making single-site, old-vine Garnacha in the Sierra de Gredos, the duo has been at the forefront of Spain’s new-wave movement and its wines are some of the country’s most sought-after.