Legado del Moncayo Garnacha Rosado
"pretty nose wafts from the glass in a blend of strawberries, melon, salty spice tones and a topnote of dried flowers...nice focus and balance and a long, easy-going and tasty finish." —
John Gilman View from the Cellar
Appellation
Campo de Borja D.O.
Grape(s)
100% Garnacha, from 10 to 20 year-old-vines
Altitude/Soil
560-600 meters / gravelly, chalky loam
Farming Methods
Traditional methods
Harvest
Hand harvested into small boxes
Production
4 hours skin maceration, whole-cluster pressed, alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel
Aging
Aged for a few months in stainless steel tanks prior to bottling, no oak.
Legado del Moncayo Garnacha Rosado
2022
89 (VfC)
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View from the Cellar |
The 2022 Garnacha Rosado from Legado del Moncayo is a bit reductive when first opened from its screwcap, but some aeration works wonders on the wine. Once the wine blossoms, it offers up a lovely nose of blood orange, raspberries, pretty spice tones, dried flowers and a fine base of chalky soil tones. On the palate the wine is bright, fullish and juicy, with a good core, fine focus 53 and grip and lovely lift on the long backend. Good juice that deserves to be bottled under natural cork! 2023-2026.
John Gilman - Issue #105 May/June 2023. |
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Legado del Moncayo Garnacha Rosado
2023
88 (VfC)
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View from the Cellar |
The 2023 Garnacha Rosado from Legado del Moncayo is a beautiful deep salmon color.The bouquet is deep, bright and nicely candied in personality, offering up scents of cherries, watermelon, white soil tones, violets and roses. On the palate the wine is vibrant, full-bodied, focused and juicy at the core, with a good spine of acidity, lovely balance and a long, succulent finish. Good juice. 2024-2028.
John Gilman; March – April 2024, Issue 110. |
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Legado del Moncayo Garnacha Rosado
2024
88 (VfC)
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View from the Cellar |
The 2024 Garnacha Rosé from Legado Del Moncayo is a beautiful salmon color. The wine
is given four hours’ worth of skin contact after the bunches are crushed to give the wine its color. It delivers an aromatic constellation of watermelon, blood orange, rose petals, a nice base of soil and just a hint of wild fennel in the upper register. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused and bright, with a good core of fruit, sound framing acids and good length and grip on the wellbalanced finish. The acids here are not particularly strident, so drink this tasty wine over the next year or so. 2025-2027.
John Gilman, Issue 1117, May– June 2025 |
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