Description

La Finca Sandoval est une véritable institution dans l'appellation d'origine Manchuela. Elle connaît actuellement un regain de jeunesse depuis l'arrivée de Javi Revert en tant qu'œnologue. Son vin rouge éponyme, dominé par le cépage Syrah, reste l'une des expressions les plus pures de ce cépage en Espagne.

Fiche technique

Le domaine
Finca Sandoval
Type de vin
Rouge
Millésime
2023
Alcool
14.0% vol.
Cépage
90% Syrah, 10% Garnacha
Origine
Manchuela
Certifications
EU Organic Bio

Dégustation

Nez
Cèdre, violette, notes umami, balsamique au nez.
Bouche
Charnu, gras, enveloppant, long.
Température de service
Il est recommandé de servir à 16 °C.

Vignoble et élaboration

Nom
Paraje Casa Blanca.
Sol
Calcaire.
Vinification
Fermentation avec 50 % de grappes entières foulées. Macération de 15 jours.
Elevage
Rouge crianza de 15 mois dans des foudres de 2 500 litres et de 5 000 litres.
Embouteillage
En novembre 2024.

L'avis des experts

The Wine Advocate:

The flagship red 2023 Finca Sandoval, a selection from their best plots and soils with more limestone, is 90% Syrah from a plot planted in 2011 and 10% Garnacha. It fermented with 50% foot-trodden full clusters and had 15 days of maceration, then it aged in 2,500-liter Austrian foudres. It has textbook descriptors of the variety—when it's good—violets, red cherries, smoky bacon and tar, nuanced and complex. It comes in at 14% alcohol, with a pH of 3.7 and 5.56 grams of acidity with abundant, slightly dusty tannins. It's slightly more southern in this vintage. It was a challenging year, with four or five episodes of hail, the last one in September (!) that decimated the crop. Just 3,300 bottles were produced, which is almost half of the volume of normal years because of the hail. It was bottled in November 2024.