Jose Gil Camino de Ribas Parcela La Cóncova 2023

The top of the range is the 2023 Camino de Ribas, and for the first time, they used all the grapes from the vineyard, which has two halves with slightly different soils; the combination has more complexity than each plot separately. The varietal breakdown comes to 80% Garnacha, 10% Tempranillo and 5% Garnacha Blanca, and it fermented with 35% full clusters and indigenous yeasts in concrete vats and matured in 500-liter barrels for 11 months.. Garnacha tends to achieve higher ripeness and alcohol, with 14.3% this year, but the wine doesn't feel warm or alcoholic. It has an explosive nose that is floral, perfumed, extroverted and intoxicating, spicy, clean, focused and complex. You want to keep smelling it forever. The palate is the same—incredibly elegant, really stunning. The vines were seven years old in 2023; they were planted in June 2016 with a massal selection from the family vineyard, and it shows how the place can be more important than vine age. This is unbelievably elegant and complex. Bravo! 2,500 bottles produced. It was bottled in September 2024. (Luis Guitérrez)