Alto de la Estrella 2019 | SOTOMANRIQUE | Cebreros

Name: Alto de la Estrella 2019 | SOTOMANRIQUE | Cebreros
Brand: SotoManrique
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Alto de la Estrella 2019 | SOTOMANRIQUE | Cebreros

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SOTOMANRIQUE, DOP Cebreros (Sierra de Gredos, Ávila). 1.3-hectare plot planted in 1961 at 1,100 metres altitude. Slate soils with bedrock close to the surface and a quartz vein crossing the plot. 100% Grenache.

Fermented in a concrete tank with 45-day vatting. Light pressing. Aged 14 months in 2,000-litre foudres. Bottled unfiltered.

Alto de la Estrella 2019

Este vino tinto pertenece a la bodega SotoManrique, de la denominación de origen Cebreros, en la región de Castilla y León (Sierra de Gredos, Ávila). Se trata de una elaboración 100% Garnacha procedente de una parcela única de 1,3 hectáreas plantada en 1961. El viñedo se sitúa a una altitud de 1.080 metros en la zona de Arrebatacapas, sobre suelo de pizarra con la roca madre próxima y una veta de cuarzo.

La vinificación destaca por la fermentación en depósito de hormigón con levaduras autóctonas y un 20% de uvas enteras, seguida de un encubado de 45 días y un prensado ligero. La crianza se realiza durante 14 meses en fudres de roble de 2.000 litros. El vino se embotella sin filtrar; se llenaron 2.500 botellas en febrero de 2021. La vendimia se realizó la primera semana de octubre.

En copa, presenta un color cereza. En nariz es complejo y expresivo, ofreciendo notas minerales, de fruta roja madura, floral y hierbas de monte. En boca se describe como elegante, lleno, largo y persistente. The Wine Advocate describe 2019 como un año cálido y seco, de más concentración y potencia, y ve el vino mucho más refinado que el 2018.

La crítica ha destacado esta añada con una puntuación de 97 puntos de Peñín (que detalla el perfil aromático y gustativo mencionado) y 95 puntos de Parker. La combinación de altura, suelo de pizarra y una vendimia tardía en un año cálido define el carácter de esta Garnacha; el elaborador describe 2019 como una añada «más Côte-Rôtie».

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PEÑÍN: 96

COLOR: cereza

AROMA: complejo, expresivo, mineral, fruta roja, fruta madura, floral, hierbas de monte

BOCA: elegante, lleno, largo, persistente

PARKER: 95

The single-vineyard red 2019 Alto de la Estrella comes from a plot in the zone of Arrebatacapas at 1,080 meters in altitude on slate and quartz soils, a 1.3-hectare vineyard that is organically farmed and ripens slowly and late. The grapes were picked the first week of October at 14% alcohol and fermented with the natural yeasts and 20% full clusters in concrete, and then the wine was transferred to a 2,000-litre oak foudre, where it matured for 14 months. Curiously enough, this is the palest of the reds from 2019. The second palest is La Mira, the other wine from slate soils. 2019 is a year of more concentration and power, a warm and dry year, according to Soto "a more Côte-Rôtie vintage." They seem to have fine-tuned the handling of the vineyard, the highest-altitude vineyard in Cebreros, and it's starting to show its true dimension. It's a lot more refined than the 2018. I wonder if 2018 was still suffering from the terrible hail of 2017 that left the vineyard without a single grape or leaf. This is superb, what I expect from a vineyard like this. 2,500 bottles were filled in February 2021.

Learn more about SotoManrique

The name is made of the two family surnames, Soto and Manrique. Behind it is Jesús María Soto, «Chuchi», who had spent twenty-five years selling wine and working on winery projects in Spain and abroad, and who was one of the founders of Leda Viñas Viejas.

He came to Cebreros in 2016 looking for garnacha. Back then the wine of the area was sold in bulk and nobody cared about the granite of Gredos. He started by buying small vineyards and bringing them back one by one.

Today there are around 20 hectares of small plots, farmed organically, with old garnacha spread between 700 and 1,100 metres.

He also runs the Cebreros cooperative and makes the wine from its members' vineyards, some 240 hectares in all.

Alto de la Estrella comes from a 1.3-hectare plot planted in 1961 at 1,100 metres, on granite soil with bedrock close to the surface and a quartz vein running through it. It is 100% garnacha: it ferments in a concrete tank with forty-five days of vatting, is lightly pressed and ages fourteen months in 2,000-litre foudres. It is bottled unfiltered.

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