Gil Family Estates Atalaya Laya 2022

Accolades:
90/100 – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate
94/100 – Bob Campbell MW (2020 vintage)

“The juicy and leafy 2022 Laya was produced with 70% Garnacha Tintorera and 30% Monastrell, looking for a fruit-driven and easy-to-drink red with 14.5% alcohol, ripe fruit and a soft texture. It’s clean, expressive and fruit-driven, with pungent flavors and round tannins. It keeps its poise in the warm 2022. It matured in French oak barrels for four months. 280,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2022.” – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

Tasting Note: Distinctive wine that combines complexity, structure and an intense cherry colour. Elegant, fresh and complex nose where ripe fruits and floral notes can be appreciated. Pleasant and fresh palate, balanced with sweet tannins, unctuous and enveloping with a unique mid-palate and long finish. Ideal to accompany with game meat and creamy rice dishes, stewed legumes, mushrooms, game and poultry, casseroles, fish and seafood sauce, smoked, cured and blue cheeses, grilled and roasted white and red meats.

Winemaking Notes: The grapes of Garnacha Tintorera & Monastrell come from vineyards located in Almansa between 700 and 1.000 metres of altitude planted on sandy soils and high amount of limestone. Maceration and Fermentation is carried out in separately in stainless-steel tanks at a controlled temperature. After malolactic fermentation the wine has remained in stainless steel tanks until bottled.

Alcohol: 14.5%

Variety: Garnacha Tintorera (Alicante Bouschet) and Monastrell (Mourvèdre)

Region: Almansa, Spain