Description
Winemaker Notes
Deep cherry red color with violet hues. Elegant wine, with a good aromatic range and great complexity, where an exclusive French oak wood is perfectly assembled with black fruit of excellent maturation. Tasty, broad, powerful, but with a fine and elegant tannin, very expressive, with the nerve that gives it the acidity of these vines grown on very poor soils. Long, pleasant and persistent finish where the toasted touch stands out. It will have a long life due to its structure and good noble tannin-acidity balance.
Professional Ratings
94 Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2021 Protos Seleccion Finca El Grajo Viejo is an awesome wine with power and style. This wine offers aromas and flavors of aromatic spices, damp drywall, and enticing chalk. Try it with dry-rubbed, grilled baby back ribs. (Tasted: February 22, 2025, San Francisco, CA)
94 Vinous
The 2021 Protos Selección Finca El Grajo Viejo is 100% Tempranillo from old-vine parcels in Anguix, Roa and Manvirgo. It was aged about 18 months in oak. Balsamic character and intense black fruit—blackberry and plum—define the nose, while the profile is deep and complex. Structure and concentration shape a compact palate with juicy, fine-grained tannins. A finely balanced expression of Ribera.
93 James Suckling
This is quite bold and youthful at this stage, as the notes of coffee and spices are not yet integrated with the ripe fruit, which is slightly baked. The notes of cherry liqueur, violets, dried herbs, peppercorns, minerals and bramble berries will open up with more time in the glass. Full-bodied and very chewy on the palate, but the tannins are really open-grained and tightly wound. Vertical, powerful and long, with a slightly warming finish. This needs at least four more years, but there is potential. A bit more freshness and precision would take it to the next level.
93 Decanter
Loads of character and expressiveness in this single-vineyard bottling hailing from a 70-year-old plot planted at 815 metres. Fragrant sage and basil play against broody tobacco and cherry leaves. Dark chocolate and liquorice root anchor the dense palate, with mineral wet-stine freshness for balance. Fine but really spicy tannins linger in the mouth with vivid nutmeg, cinnamon and pink pepper. a great companion for merguez sausages with lentils and mustard.
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