Anza San Ginés 2022

The new 2022 Anza San Ginés was produced with the complex field blend (including around 12% white grapes this year) from a plot in the Barranco de San Ginés in the village of Laguardia. It matured in two 500-liter oak barrels. It has the house style of cleanliness and precision, elegance and purity, but the quality of the tannins is not the same as in the 2021s. There is a little rusticity in the mouthfeel here, but the wine is young and should get polished with some more time in bottle. It's a very good debut, especially in a warm and dry year like 2022. 1,200 bottles were filled in September 2023.

Vibrant and driven nose with lots of plums, cherries, chalk, white pepper and a smoky and minerally streak. Juicy and lively, with a tight claw of chalky tannins that clutches the rich, lightly sweet fruit. Drink now or hold.