2023 L'Ermita
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The "gran vinya classificada" single-vineyard 2023 L'Ermita was also bottled and singing. From the 4.7 hectares of the vineyard, they selected four for this vintage, with a blend of 84% Garnacha, 13% Cariñena, 2% Picapoll and 1% white grapes, Garnacha Blanca, Macabeo and PX. It fermented with part of full clusters and indigenous yeasts in oak vats with a longer maceration than in 2022, a total of 42 days, followed by an élevage in French oak oval foudres of 13 months and two more months in concrete. Last year, I found it darker, earthier and a little more rustic than the 2022 wine, but it has bloomed since then. It's much more ethereal and floral, with notes of fresh grape pulp, and it has contained energy, interwoven with spices. This is now somewhere in between the more perfumed and ethereal wines like Dofi and La Baixada and the earthier, darker and more powerful like La Baixada. 4,730 bottles were filled in February 2025.
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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A Gran Vinya Classificada and a joy from beginning to end, with a glorious future ahead. It's often difficult to approach the greats with a fair mind, but L'Ermita charms from the first. The aromas are delightfully floral, laden with redcurrants and tangerine peel, plus wild herbs and white flowers. Nothing is overdone here – it's so elegant. In the mouth it's fresh and crisp with abundant red cherries, run through with the savoury, mineral notes of the terroir. The tannins add fine texture and grain. A superbly long finish. This really is a wine to meditate over.
Very good depth for a rather delicate, nuanced red from a blisteringly hot and dry year, showing violets, ripe strawberries, blueberries, sweet spices and minerals on the nose. A touch of white pepper as well. The extraction must have been kept low to keep the finesse and fine-grained tannins. Fine mineral tension in the middle. Drink from 2027.