2014 Galia, El Regajal, Spain

2014 Galia, El Regajal, Spain

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2014 Galia, El Regajal, Spain

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The 2014 Galia has some 7% Garnacha to complement the majority of Tempranillo, but in the old vineyards there is always some white Albillo too. This wine had a longer élevage of some 21 months, which is something he felt the vintage demanded. The profile is floral and aromatic, with a combination of heady and ripe wild berries. Here he selected sandier soils with a limestone-rich subsoil and he found that, because of that sandy texture, close to 60% of the grapes used are ungrafted, some of them (from the Soria part) pre-dating phylloxera. There are grapes from Trigueros del Valle in Cigales and other parts of the Duero Valley, Cuevas de Provanco, Piquera, some in Ribera del Duero and even some new vineyards in Fuentelcésped, where he had a high percentage of Albillo. The wine is fragrant and open, with good ripeness and no excess. The oak is nicely integrated; the wine aged in a combination of barriques, 600-liter vats and 1,200-liter foudres (and later even 2,500-liter ones), and some concrete eggs, which seem to have provided the it with an elegant, polished and sleek texture. The palate is very balanced and with a good combination of power and elegance. The Garnacha clearly adds a heady touch in the finish, where for a second it took me to Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Super! 10,000 bottles produced.
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate (February 2017)

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Wine Advocate94/100
The 2014 Galia has some 7% Garnacha to complement the majority of Tempranillo, but in the old vineyards there is always some white Albillo too. This wine had a longer élevage of some 21 months, which is something he felt the vintage demanded. The profile is floral and aromatic, with a combination of heady and ripe wild berries. Here he selected sandier soils with a limestone-rich subsoil and he found that, because of that sandy texture, close to 60% of the grapes used are ungrafted, some of them (from the Soria part) pre-dating phylloxera. There are grapes from Trigueros del Valle in Cigales and other parts of the Duero Valley, Cuevas de Provanco, Piquera, some in Ribera del Duero and even some new vineyards in Fuentelcésped, where he had a high percentage of Albillo. The wine is fragrant and open, with good ripeness and no excess. The oak is nicely integrated; the wine aged in a combination of barriques, 600-liter vats and 1,200-liter foudres (and later even 2,500-liter ones), and some concrete eggs, which seem to have provided the it with an elegant, polished and sleek texture. The palate is very balanced and with a good combination of power and elegance. The Garnacha clearly adds a heady touch in the finish, where for a second it took me to Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Super! 10,000 bottles produced.
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate (February 2017)
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Jeb Dunnuck93/100
A blend of 93% Tempranillo and 7% Garnacha, the 2014 Galia is the first vintage of this cuvée which comes from vines just on the edge of Ribera del Duero. Brought up all in French oak (225-, 600-, and 1200-liter barrels), it has ripe, sexy notes of sweet black raspberries, toasted spice, vanilla bean, and subtle oak. Medium to full-bodied, layered, with fine tannins and beautiful balance, it’s a seriously good, age-worthy red that can be drunk today or cellared for over a decade (and probably much longer).
Jeb Dunnuck, jebdunnuck.com (April 2019)
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Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

A high quality red wine grape that is grown all over Spain except in the hot South - it is known as Tinto Fino in Ribera del Duero, Cencibel in La Mancha and Valdepenas and Ull de Llebre in Catalonia. Its spiritual home is in Rioja and Navarra where it constitutes around 70% of most red blends.

Tempranillo-based wines tend to have a spicy, herbal, tobacco-like character accompanied by ripe strawberry and red cherry fruits. It produces fresh, vibrantly fruit driven "jovenes" meant for drinking young. However Tempranillo really comes into its own when oak aged, as with the top Riojas  where its flavours seem to harmonise perfectly with both French and American oak, producing rich, powerful and concentrated wines which can be extraordinarily long-lived.

In Ribera del Duero it generally sees less oak - the exception being Vega Sicilia where it is blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot and then aged for an astonishing 7 years in oak and is unquestionably one of the world`s greatest wines.

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