Jose Gil, El Bardallo Vintage:2022 This is rich and polished

This is rich and polished

with the élevage spanning 22 months in 60% new French oak

with an open-knit nose that's generous

The big news this year is that Benjamin Romeo

California raisin and dried flower emerging

Jose Gil, El Bardallo Vintage:2022 This is rich and polishedAs with La Canoca, the 2022 El Bardallo changes from a single vineyard to a paraje (lieu dit) wine and includes more plots in the same place to increase the volume of wine produced. It's Tempranillo with some 10% white grapes, mostly Viura. It fermented with some whole cluster fruit and indigenous yeasts and matured in 500 and 600 liter barrels. It's quite fruit driven, aromatic and reminiscent of the old carbonic fermentation reds matured in barrel,