Galia Clos Santuy 2017

The 2017 Clos Santuy clearly transcends the character of the vintage, and the wine managed to get the balance and poise and didn't show any excess ripeness or heat; it comes through as balanced, powerful, yes, but also very elegant and perhaps more open and expressive than the more backward 2016 that I tasted next to it. It's a co-fermentation of Tempranillo with approximately 14% white Albillo grapes that are co-planted in the vineyard. It's perhaps closer to the style of 2015. 2017 was a shorter crop, and there was only enough wine to fill one 600-liter demi-muid, where the wine matured for 22 months until it was bottled into 798 bottles in September 2019.