Casa Los Frailes Dolomitas 2016
Descripción
En la falda de una montaña dolomita se encuentra la Monastrell con la que la bodega valenciana Casa Los Frailes elabora este tinto, que debe su nombre a la parcela donde se origina: Las Dolomitas. Hablamos de los suelos menos profundos de la finca, donde las raíces de la planta baja apenas 60 centímetros hasta encontrarse con la roca madre. Este hecho aporta una singularidad al vino que se respeta al máximo en bodega, con la mínima intervención posible y el uso de depósitos de hormigón y ánforas de barro que ya los frailes usaron siglos atrás.
Ficha técnica
Cata
Viñedo y elaboración
Opinión de los críticos
Part of their new range of "old style" wines, the 2016 Dolomitas is a pure Monastrell from a sloped vineyard on shallow soils at the foot of the Dolomite Mountains. This new range ferments in old lagar with indigenous yeasts (in this case, half of the volume fermented in stainless steel) and the élevage is in ancient concrete vats and amphorae for ten months. There is great purity and character in these new "old" wines, with a serious and somehow austere profile, and the wines welcome air (both the Monastrell and Garnacha Tintorera tend to close down in bottle). With air this becomes higher pitched than the Caliza, with notes of balsam and aromatic herbs, and there is a little more refinement in the tannins. This is a very interesting, geeky range, almost experimental. But these kind of wines always bring some changes in the larger production wines. 6,758 bottles were filled in August 2017.