Frontonio La Loma y Los Santos 2021, Aragon

Cierzo · regenerative agriculture · since 2008

Fernando Mora, MW, and Mario López have already established that they can extract the best out of the old bush vines from the birthplace of the Garnacha varietal. Building on their success with this limited bottling of a high-alt. blanco blend, Macabeo from La Loma on clay-limestone at 500m elev., and Garnacha Blanca from Los Santos on slate at 600m.  True heroic viticulture, hand-harvested, crushed and macerated for a day, spontaneous fermentation in concrete tanks, then racked to neutral barrels for 14 months.  Excellent acidity thru-line, tea tannins, tart sapidity – audaciously Aragón.

IGP: Valdejalón    

Grapes: Garnacha Blanca, Macabeo