Cabanelas Vino de Paraje 2018

The juicy, floral, fresh and balanced 2018 Cabanelas has old-vine concentration and depth and the freshness from the cooler year. This is a completely different wine from 2018, with a lot less oak, more integrated, balanced and fresh. It combines ripeness (14.5%) with freshness and elegance and comes through as complete and harmonious. This fermented in used barrels, 50% with full clusters that were foot trodden and the other 50% destemmed, followed by malolactic in new barrels, and then it matured in used 225-liter oak barrels for 12 months. I think there's still room for improvement in the use of oak. 1,200 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2020.