Bodegas Mancuso Garnacha 2023

Jancis Robinson

New wine. Mid crimson. Sturdier than the most fashionable Spanish Garnachas. Masses of impact! This is more Châteauneuf than Gredos but it's great value. Jewelly sweet fruit but with enough tannin and acidity to keep it appetising. Really very exciting indeed – not least because there is a bit of evolution as well as this great fruit. Navascués strikes again! Beautifully rich yet composed for current drinking.

Verema

Robert Parker

The 2021 Mancuso was produced with Garnacha from four rented plots and two they own, all around 60-year-old vines on slate, clay and limestone soils, including all the three different ones in the village of Almonacid de la Sierra. It fermented with part of full clusters, and 65% of the volume matured in concrete and the rest in 500-liter barrels. It has notes of aromatic herbs, thyme, rosemary, lavender, crunchy berry fruit, and it has a medium-bodied palate and fine tannins. 2021 was an excellent vintage, with good ripeness, contained alcohol and very healthy grapes, and the resulting wine has 13.5% alcohol, with a pH of 3.39 and 5.8 grams of acidity. The wines from the zone have never had acidity and freshness like these, but it keeps the character of the zone, with some cherries in liqueur with herbal finesse, precise and elegant. 6,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2023.

Tim Atkin

Decanter

A powerful but elegant wine with lots of energy. The old-vine Garnacha here offers aromatic mountain herbs and spice as well as a fresh green note of tomato vine. It spends a year in 500L oak, bringing a lovely savoury, balsamic character. The tannins are fine and the finish very long, with savoury green olive and persistent red fruit. Offers outstanding value.