Jose Gil Paraje El Bardallo 2022

José Gil, together with his partner Vicky Fernández, started the Jose Gil Vigneron project in 2016, but despite his youth, he has a long career as a winemaker both in a family winery in La Rioja and staging in Germany and Burgundy, which is the origin of the concept of his winemaking: village and single vineyard wines.

Paraje el Bardallo is a wine that comes from 3 vineyards in the valley of the same name thus "unique area vineyard", at around 520 metres above sea level. Tempranillo is the main variety (95%) with a small contribution of white grapes (5% Viura) from old vines, between 40 and 80 years old.

For this wine almost all of the grapes are destemmed although 5% of whole bunches are left for fermentation with wild yeasts in stainless steel tanks. The wine then rests for 10 months in used 500-litre French oak barrels, which are kept in a cellar in the hills of San Vicente de la Sonsierra.

This red wine has notes of dark forest fruits, herbaceous and fresh with velvety tannins. Easy to drink now or within 5-10 years if stored correctly.

Of this vintage, 3,150 numbered bottles were produced.