2022 Bodegas Frontonio El Jardín de las Iguales Garnacha (PRE-ARRIVAL ONLY)

Pre-arrival price only, will be $735 when landed.

From 100+ year old vines on slate soil profile at 700m in Aragon.

Very limited just 6 bottles for Australia.

97 Points, Parker (Luis Gutiérrez) –“ The 2022 El Jardín de las Iguales Garnacha was cropped from a warm and dry year, more Mediterranean and with a sensation of a little more ripeness despite the moderate 13.5% alcohol. The grapes were picked quite early, the 11th of September. The full clusters, including a small percentage of Macabeo interplanted with the Garnacha (perhaps 5% to 10%), fermented with full clusters that were foot trodden in concrete and with a long maceration of 82 days. The wine matured in neutral 456-liter barrels for a period of 13 months. It has notes of flowers, berries and herbs with an exotic touch of curry and celery, elegant and complex. It has a seamless palate with abundant, fine-grained tannins and very supple flavors. It has very good acidity and healthy parameters: a pH of 3.12 and 6.19 grams of acidity. 960 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2024. I tasted the wine twice, the same bottle with a difference of 14 hours, and the wine opened up spectacularly but didn't deviate one millimeter; so, my guess is that the wine is going to age effortlessly in bottle.”

97 Points, Peñín – “Style: complex, exuberant. Color: bright cherry. Aroma: complex, expressive, spicy, mineral, red berry notes, ripe fruit, citrus fruit. Flavour: full-bodied, long, great length, full of life.”

97 Points, James Suckling (Jacobo García Andrade) – “This opens with aromas of chamomile, white flowers, stones and a subtle hint of fennel. The palate is delineated, distinct and refined, with compact stone fruit running through its core and a saline thread that gives it energy. The finish is intense and vibrant, showing impressive length and contained ripeness that unfolds with elegance. This is the producer’s top single vineyard, planted on a northeastern-facing site in the vicinity of Alpartir. Drink now or hold..”