Uvas Felices - El Hombre Bala Tinto, Sierra de Gredos, Spain (2020)

TASTING NOTES

A refined, subtle perfume of currants, raspberries, cherries in liqueur, intense balsamic, eucalyptus and a floral touch of chamomile. On the palate it has a sharp and silky texture, ethereal and delicate.

Uvas Felices is an under-the-radar, innovative project between distributor Vila Viniteca and a number of prestigious winemakers and oenologists across Spain. El Hombre Bala being a partnership with the winemaking team of über-celebrated Commando G.

El Hombre Bala ("the human cannonball") is from the emerging are of the high elevation (at ~850m) Sierra de Gredos mountain range to the west of Madrid from poor, weathered granitic soils with a sandy texture, very low in organic matter and with a high content of quartz and silica. Vineyards are 40-80 years of age.

Low intervention winemaking; aged for 14 months in 400 and 700-litre French oak vats and barrels and a further 6 months in the bottle.