2022 Comando G La Brena 1er Cru Garnacha

96 pts
Comando G |Sierra de Gredos
EXTREMELY LIMITED! A finely-tuned mountain Garnacha that captures the elegance and texture of Villanueva’s granite soils in a beautifully understated way.

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Sale price$260.00
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Description

"At the crossroads of classicism and unpretentious cool, Landi and García have introduced a new audience – of both drinkers and collectors – to a finer side of Spanish wines."
- Ines Salpica (Decanter Magazine)

La Brena sits just outside the village of Villanueva de Avila and is one of Comando G’s newer “lieu-dit” releases – part of their push to dig deeper into the individual voices of these remote mountain vineyards. The site is high, windy and stark, giving Garnacha that feels more alpine than Mediterranean.

The 2022 vintage was warm, but you’d hardly know it here. This is all lift and mineral drive, with that signature Comando G finesse showing through in the tannin - sandy, mouthcoating and fine as it gets. Fermented with whole bunches and raised in old wood, it’s all about transparency and letting the site speak.

There’s a quiet confidence to this wine. It might not shout, but the structure and detail are all there, and it’s likely to age gracefully for years to come. Just over 3,500 bottles were produced.

96+ points
"...perfumed and elegant... very fine granite tannins and a supple, almost salty twist in the finish that makes you salivate... narrow, complete, mineral, elegant and crisp, with Villanueva finesse."
- Luis Gutiérrez (The Wine Advocate)

95 points
"Grilled grapefruit with bitter spices, ginseng and botanicals... austere, sandy tannins and a pristine but lengthy finish... bitter herbs and botanicals."
- Zekun Shuai (JamesSuckling.com)

96+ points - "The vino de paraje (lieu-dit) 2022 La Breña 1er makes a comeback after the 2020 vintage, as it was not produced in 2021. This has a similar profile to the single-vineyard La Breña; it's perfumed and elegant, without the precision of the single vineyard but still amazingly elegant, with very fine granite tannins and a supple, almost salty twist in the finish that makes you salivate. This is so fresh that I forgot we were tasting a wine from 2022. It's narrow, complete, mineral, elegant and crisp, with Villanueva finesse. 3.568 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2024." - Luis Gutiérrez (The Wine Advocate)

95 points - "Grilled grapefruit with bitter spices, ginseng and botanicals. Deliciously textured and structured, with austere, sandy tannins and a pristine but lengthy finish full of grapefruit peel, bitter herbs and botanicals. Drink now or hold." - Zekun Shuai (JamesSuckling.com)

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Country Spain
Region Sierra de Gredos
Reviewed By The Wine Advocate
James Suckling
Critic Score 96
95
Size 750ml
Vintage 2022
Closure Cork

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