Daniel Gomez Jimenez-Landi, Mentrida, Cantos del Diablo 2014

The single vineyard Garnacha 2014 Cantos del Diablo is produced with grapes from a single plot on a slope at 860 meters altitude in the village of El Real de San Vicente. This is in the Méntrida appellation but is also part of the Gredos Mountains, which is not a true appellation on paper but one that makes very much sense, adding parts of Méntrida, Madrid and the Ávila part of Castilla León. It has a very Burgundian nose with flinty minerality, and it opens up with time in the glass. It has citrus finesse, very fine tannins and a sapid, long finish. It matured in a 700-liter oak barrel, and, as all the wines here, does not show any oak. Narrow and long. 891 bottles were filled in June 2016, after a longer élevage.

Drink 2017 - 2023

Fruit for this refined Garnacha come from 70-year-old vines in an organically farmed single vineyard of 0.3ha, planted at 900m on north-facing granite slopes. The whole-cluster fruit is open-top fermented and matures for 14 months in a 1,500 litre oak foudre, before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. It's earthy, firm and slatey, boasting lifted violet aromas, flavours of bright red berries and structure from supple tannins and fresh acidity. Just 891 bottles made.

Drink 2018 - 2026