Enrique Mendoza - Las Quebradas Monastrell 2018 (750ml) Negramoll and silken tannins

and silken tannins

and full yet bright on the palate

There’s a long life ahead for this Cabernet

polished aromas of ripe currant

while Pio heads the winemaking

Enrique Mendoza - Las Quebradas Monastrell 2018 (750ml) Negramoll and silken tanninsThe 2018 Las Quebradas is pure Monastrell from a dry farmed and head pruned vineyard with very poor soils covered in limestone boulders (caliche). It fermented with indigenous yeasts in square oak vats with manual punch downs of the cap. It matured in Allier barrels for 16 months. It feels very young and still marked by the levage. The palate is terribly stony and mineral with a chalky texture, serious and powerful with terrific balance. In general,