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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 es un vino tinto elaborado por la bodega Domaines Lupier en la denominación de origen Navarra, España. Se trata de un vino de añada 2016, producido exclusivamente con uva Garnacha bajo prácticas de agricultura biodinámica. La uva procede de 12 parcelas distintas con una edad media de las cepas de 75 años, situadas a una altitud de 500 metros sobre el nivel del mar.
En cuanto a su elaboración, la fermentación se realiza con levaduras indígenas. La crianza tiene lugar en barricas de roble francés de 500 litros, con una duración variable entre 11 y 13 meses dependiendo de la parcela. Las barricas son en su mayoría usadas, de 500 y 600 litros, y solo se renueva alrededor de un 8% cada año, por lo que no aportan aromas de roble al vino.
El perfil sensorial descrito presenta un color cereza con borde violáceo. En nariz destaca una expresión frutal de fruta roja, acompañada de notas florales, especias, tiza y un carácter mineral. En boca se describe como sabroso y frutoso, con una buena acidez y un final largo. Se resalta una fruta crujiente, fresca y de tonalidad roja más que negra.
Las puntuaciones obtenidas son de 95 puntos de la Guía Peñín y 95 de Parker. Parker señala un equilibrio impresionante, taninos finos de tipo calizo y una gran longitud. Se valora especialmente la integración del roble, que permite percibir el fruto fresco, la humedad y el suelo, resultando en un vino relajado y armonioso. Se considera la añada más completa hasta la fecha, con suficiente acidez y frescura para un largo envejecimiento. Se embotellaron 28.203 botellas numeradas en junio de 2018.
Descripción generada por IA con conocimiento WSET. Solo orientativa.
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.
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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