Garnacha/Syrah, Quinta de Quercus 2021
Guia Penin 92
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Why this wine
Uclés is a high, chalky corner of central Spain that few outside the country can name, and 800 metres of altitude is what keeps this fresh at 14.5%. Every parcel is fermented separately with no fixed recipe, then aged a year in French and American oak. Concentrated but not heavy.
At a glance
- Grape
- Garnacha 80%, Syrah 20%
- Region
- Central Castile, Spain
- Alcohol
- 14.50%
- Body
- Full
- Acidity
- Medium
- Tannins
- Medium
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Short (3-5 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Red Meat, Barbecue, Cheese
How it tastes
Intense ripe blackberry with subtle herbal edges and refined layers of oak spice and clove. Full-bodied and concentrated yet still juicy and vibrant, with velvety, finely-knit tannins and a precise, long finish. Garnacha 80%, Syrah 20%.
The producer
Quinta de Quercus is a 44-hectare estate in DO Uclés, set at 800 metres in the heart of Castile, where winemakers Tao Platón and Sam Harrop work with parcels of low-yielding old vines. This wine comes from Viña Ocaña, the oldest plot on the estate, a gently sloping parcel of chalky soils where the altitude brings a distinct freshness and warm days tempered by cool nights hold the acidity while the flavours concentrate; the vineyard is cultivated sustainably and the grapes are hand-picked at optimum maturity. There is no predetermined formula here: the grapes were carefully selected and destalked, each parcel was vinified separately in small temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks with the temperature, length of fermentation, number of pump-overs and post-fermentation maceration all varied tank by tank, and the wine then spent twelve months in 300-litre French and 225-litre American oak barrels, a quarter of them new.
Food and drinking
Serve at 16-18°C. It suits grilled lamb, beef short ribs, barbecued vegetables and aged Manchego. Drinking well now and over the next three to five years; an hour in a decanter suits it. Suitable for vegetarians.