A Graña 2018

The one wine that is different from the rest is the 2018 A Graña, not only because of the chestnut wood used, which in 2018 was already in its third use and therefore more neutral, but also because of the soil, granodiorite, a kind of granite that has more feldspar and quartz, in the zone of Adina in Sanxenxo. This might give a somewhat more rustic minerality, and the chestnut seems to let the wine express itself—it doesn't make the wine rounder like oak does, and wines in chestnut are a bit wilder. The vineyard also delivers very high acidity, as it's very shallow and hard. It delivers a wine with great tension, a bit of a revelation. I've always liked this wine, and this 2018 is more in the direction of the 2016. This is also very salty, tasty, umami... This wine has a pH of 2.8! After their experience with this wine, they are purchasing more chestnut barrels... 1,196 bottles and 10 magnums were filled in August 2019.