Horizonte de Exopto 2018

The Sonsierra red 2018 Horizonte de Exopto combines grapes from Ábalos and San Vicente de la Sonsierra and is a traditional blend of Tempranillo with 10% each Garnacha and Graciano. It fermented in concrete vats with indigenous yeasts, and the wine matured 50/50 in 600-liter demi-muids and 225-liter barriques for one year. There is a lot of depth and nuance here: there is fruit, ripe without excess, spice, aromatic herbs and a touch of licorice and earth. The palate is medium-bodied and reveals great balance, powerful but elegant, quite classical and with all that it needs to develop nicely in bottle in this cooler year. 12,000 bottles were filled in November 2019.

The cooler 2018 vintage was just the thing to appeal to a Frenchman who cut his winemaking teeth in Bordeaux. Floral racy, intense and spicy, this is an unoaked delight, mixing Tempranillo with 10% each of Graciano and Garnacha, all of it from Ábalos and San Vicente de la Sonsierra, with violet perfume and blackberry and blueberry fruit. 2022-28