El Terroir 2016 | Domaines Lupier | Navarra

Name: El Terroir 2016 | Domaines Lupier | Navarra
Brand: Domaines Lupier
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El Terroir 2016 | Domaines Lupier | Navarra

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The Garnacha vines are distributed over 12 biodynamically cultivated plots, averaging 75 years of age at around 500 metres above sea level.

Fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged between 11 and 13 months (depending on the plot) in 500-litre French oak barrels.

El Terroir 2016 – Domaines Lupier

This wine is a red Garnacha from Navarra, Spain, produced by Domaines Lupier. The grapes are sourced from twelve biodynamically farmed plots at an average altitude of 500 meters, with vines averaging 75 years in age. Vinification involves fermentation using indigenous yeasts, followed by aging for 11 to 13 months, depending on the specific plot, in French oak barrels. The barrels are mostly used and hold volumes of 500 to 600 liters, with a replacement rate of only around 8% per vintage. This results in well-seasoned, neutral wood that imparts no overt oak aromas or flavors, allowing the fruit character to remain transparent.

The wine presents a cherry color with a violaceous rim. On the nose, it offers an expressive profile of red fruit, floral notes, spice, and distinct minerality reminiscent of chalk. The palate is savory and fruity, supported by good acidity and a long finish. Critics note crunchy, red rather than black fruit character, emphasizing freshness and integration of elements such as rain and soil nuances.

Critics have awarded this vintage high marks. Guía Peñín gave it a score of 95, highlighting its color, aromatic expression, and structure. The Wine Advocate (Parker) also rated it 95, praising the integration of oak and the wine’s fresh, transparent nature compared to initial vintages.

Overall, El Terroir 2016 is characterized by its freshness, red fruit dominance, and mineral depth, reflecting its old vines and biodynamic farming, with no overt oak character.

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PEÑÍN: 95

COLOR: cereza, borde violáceo

AROMA: expresión frutal, fruta roja, floral, especiado, tiza, mineral

BOCA: sabroso, frutoso, buena acidez, largo

PARKER: 95

The 2016 El Terroir comes from a selection of their organic and biodynamically farmed plots, fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured between 11 and 13 months, depending on the plot, in mostly used and mostly 500- and 600-liter oak barrels. They now only replace around 8% of the barrels each vintage, so they are quite well seasoned and neutral, and the wines don't have any oak aromas or flavors. It has crunchy fruit, red rather than black fruit, and the wine is super fresh. The oak is much better integrated than the initial vintages—it's transparent with the wine, and you feel the fresh fruit, the rain, the soil—as a result, the wine is relaxed, harmonious and has light. This is a more complete and deeper version of the 2013, with the freshness and acidity with long life ahead. The wines show incremental improvements year after year, and the 2016 has probably helped to obtain the most complete vintage to date. It's long, tasty, has fine chalky tannins and impressive balance. 28,203 numbered bottles were filled in June 2018.

Learn more about Domaines Lupier

The winery came out of a meeting at work. In 2000 the oenologist Enrique Basarte and the economist Elisa Úcar crossed paths at Chivite, and from there came the idea of saving Navarra's old Garnacha. In 2008 they set up Domaines Lupier in the villages where that Garnacha had held on: San Martín de Unx and Olite.

There are seventeen unirrigated hectares, spread across some thirty small plots farmed and vinified separately — between twenty and twenty-one different vinifications — with vines going back as far as 1903.

Raúl Pérez came into the blending in 2018 and in 2022 he bought the property: that was his first vintage as owner. The wines are now labelled Domaines Lupier de Raúl Pérez.

El Terroir comes from twelve plots farmed biodynamically, averaging seventy-five years old, at around five hundred metres. It ferments with indigenous yeasts and ages eleven to thirteen months, depending on the plot, in 500-litre French oak barrels.

The 2016 vintage predates Raúl Pérez's arrival: it was made by Basarte and Úcar.

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