Malayeto 2019 | Viña Zorzal | Navarra

Name: Malayeto 2019 | Viña Zorzal | Navarra
Brand: Viña Zorzal
SKU: 206
Price: 18.15 EUR
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18.15 €

Malayeto 2019 | Viña Zorzal | Navarra

18.15 €

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Viña Zorzal, DO Navarra. Single-estate parcel of 2.39 hectares, 35-year-old vines at 520 metres altitude. Rocky soils. 100% Grenache.

Early harvest. Spontaneous fermentation in 3,500-litre vats. Minimal extraction. Aged 9 months in two-year-old French oak. Lightly fined and filtered.

Wine Identification
Malayeto is a red wine produced by Viña Zorzal from the 2019 vintage. It originates from the Navarra appellation in Spain and is made exclusively from Garnacha grapes.

Origin and Winemaking
The wine comes from a specific estate plot measuring 2.39 hectares, situated at an altitude of 520 meters. The vines grow in stony soils with limestone and gravel. Viña Zorzal practices early harvesting to preserve freshness. Fermentation occurs spontaneously with indigenous yeasts. Extraction is kept minimal to maintain finesse. The wine is lightly fined and filtered.

Expected Profile and Tasting Notes
Visually, the wine presents a cherry color with a violaceous rim. On the nose, it offers a fruity expression characterized by red fruit, floral notes, mountain herbs, and musky nuances. The palate is savory and fruity, supported by good acidity and a long finish. It is described as soft, caressing, elegant, and harmonious.

Critics' Scores and Comments
The wine has received notable recognition from prominent critics:
Guía Peñín: 94 points. The guide highlights its fruity expression, red fruit, floral aromas, mountain herbs, and musky notes, noting a savory, fruity mouthfeel with good acidity and length.
The Wine Advocate (Parker): 94 points. The Wine Advocate describes this as one of the true bargains from Navarra and all of Spain. He notes it is pure Garnacha from old vines on complex soils. It fermented with indigenous yeasts in concrete and stainless steel, then matured in a large oak vat and used barrels for twelve months. The reviewer considers this his "go-to wine" at the estate, stating that it defines the house style and the character of the year, delivering quality comparable to previous vintages.

Overall Character
Malayeto stands out as an elegant and harmonious expression of Navarra Garnacha. Defined by its stony terroir and careful winemaking, it combines softness with structure, offering significant value and consistent quality that reflects the unique character of Viña Zorzal’s estate vineyards.

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PEÑÍN: 94

COLOR: cereza, borde violáceo

AROMA: expresión frutal, fruta roja, floral, hierbas de monte, notas almizcladas

BOCA: sabroso, frutoso, buena acidez, largo

PARKER: 94

One of the true bargains from Navarra and the whole of Spain has to be the 2019 Malayeto; it's pure Garnacha from a plot of 2.39 hectares of 40-year-old vines on complex soils with limestone, gravel and stones. It fermented with indigenous yeasts in a combination of concrete and stainless steel and matured in a 4,000-liter oak vat and eight used 500-liter oak barrels for 12 months. This is my go-to wine here, a Garnacha that always delivers and the one that for me defines the house style and the character of the year. This is soft and caressing, elegant and harmonious. This is every bit as good as the 2018 despite the warmer conditions of the year, keeping the freshness; there is great purity and detail and it's elegant and balanced, extremely harmonious and seamless, with very fine tannins and great integration of the oak. Bravo! 10,600 bottles were filled in February 2021.

Learn more about Viña Zorzal

Antonio Sanz had been running the Malón de Echaide cooperative in Cascante when he founded Vinícola Corellana in 1989. His three sons took over in 2007 with the roles divided — Iñaki running the winery, Mikel in the vineyard, Xabi on the commercial side — and started out with a graciano from that same vintage.

The turn came later, when Rafael Regadera showed them what was in the old garnacha of the Ribera Baja. The house has narrowed towards those parcels ever since: around three hundred and fifty thousand bottles today, close to 80% of it exported, and some wines that do not reach a thousand.

They work fifty-two hectares and vinify them apart, because each site argues something different. Pontigos, in Fitero, is pre-phylloxera garnacha on stony soils that have never been tilled. Corral de los Altos sits on top of a plateau, exposed to the cierzo. Lerga, at 615 metres, gets more rain than Fitero. Las Roscas is above 500 metres on sandstone, limestone and clay.

Señora de las Alturas comes from a parcel of pre-phylloxera vines on the banks of the river Alhama, on gravel with limestone and clay: garnacha alone, fermented with indigenous yeasts in open 500-litre barrels and aged twelve months in the same format.

Malayeto is its opposite in age and its like in approach: a little over two hectares of thirty-five-year-old vines at 520 metres, on stony soil, facing the Moncayo. Early picking, spontaneous fermentation in 3,500-litre vats, minimal extraction and nine months in second-fill French oak. The first vintage was 2013.

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