Over the last 15 years, Daniel Landi and Fernando Garcia have been flipping the script on Spanish Garnacha (Grenache) and showing us an entirely different potential for what this grape can do
Working a combination of leased and purchased vineyards, their high altitude old-vines rest on well-draining soils of granite, slate, and quartz. The higher altitude creates a longer growing season and the resulting wines take on intense flavors and aromatics while maintaining a lifted energetic quality with modest alcohol levels. Farming is biodynamic, vineyards are worked by hand (and horse), and grapes are fermented by indigenous yeasts in open-top French oak casks. Aging happens in larger oak barrels, foudre or clay amphora.