2018 Comando G Tamboril Blanco

“The one white produced by Comando G (other than a small cuvée of biological flor-aged white sometimes and some almost experimental whites) is the 2018 El Tamboril, a blend of Garnacha Blanca and Garnacha Gris from a 0.2-hectare plot of 70-year-old vines at 1,200 meters in altitude in the village of Navatalgordo on shallow sand and sandstone soils. The grapes were picked in mid-October despite which the wine is only 12.2% alcohol and has amazing parameters of freshness, a pH of 3.15 and 6.31 grams of acidity measured in tartaric acid. The clusters were directly pressed, and the juice fermented in oak barrel with indigenous yeasts. The wine matured in a concrete egg for 14 months instead of barrique, and this wine is sharper and narrower, which was the objective. This is amazing, sharp, crystalline, precise, insinuating and super mineral, with a texture of cold liquid rocks, and it’s full of flavors and has a salty finish, which seems to be a characteristic from El Tamboril that I even find in the red. It makes me think of some of the wines from Jean-Marc Roulot, austere and precise. Mind-blowing. Only 728 bottles were filled in March 2020.”