Comando G, Las Iruelas, 2023 NO20230524 The result is a 2016

The result is a 2016 of real density and proportion — sweet cherry and blackberry hemmed in by sturdy tannins

Champagne Guiborat’s Blanc de Blancs “Prisme” Extra Brut Grand Cru NV

drop it over one big cube

More than two decades on

its structure suggests it will continue to evolve and gain even more complexity over the next decade or more

Comando G, Las Iruelas, 2023 NO20230524 The result is a 2016Comando G are the duo who convinced the wine world that Garnacha could be delicate, and Las Iruelas is where they push that idea furthest. This is a single site of roughly 60 year old vines perched around 1,000 meters in the Sierra de Gredos, west of Madrid, and unusually for the range it carries slate and schist in the soil rather than pure granite, which gives the wine an extra layer of tension. Fernando Garcia and Daniel Gomez Jimenez Landi farm it