Jose Gil Viñedos en San Vicente de la Sonsierra 2020

This is "just" the village wine from José Gil and Vicky Fernández, but it shows you why they're regarded as rising stars. Made with fruit from four parcels - La Canoca, La Concova, El Bardallo and San Martín - it's a marriage of Tempranillo and 18% Garnacha and Viura aged in older foudres. Balanced, textured and nuanced with impressive palate length and black cherry and bramble fruit. 2023-28

The 2020 Viñedos en San Vicente de la Sonsierra, the village red, is quite different from the previous vintages, as it has up to 20% Garnacha—more than in the past, when it could be some 2%. They also used some 10% full clusters and uncrushed grapes for the fermentation in stainless steel and plastic bins with indigenous yeasts. The wine matured in 500-liter oak barrel for some 10 months, and the integration of oak is better than with the smaller barrels. It's more expressive, with a floral character and perfume that is very attractive, and it's balanced and fresh, clean and tasty, with a medium body and very fine tannins. There are 3,800 bottles. It was bottled in September 2021 just before the following harvest.