Jose Gil El Bardallo, Rioja DOCa, Spain 2022 Cotes de Beaune Really expressive

Really expressive

While this wine does suffer from high alcohol

This is a ripe

full-bodied Margaux with fruit and freshness

with subtle notes of lemon blossom and passionfruit

Jose Gil El Bardallo, Rioja DOCa, Spain 2022 Cotes de Beaune Really expressiveAs 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,