Bodegas Ponce - La Estrecha 2020 (750ml)
| Producer | Bodegas Ponce |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Castilla La Mancha |
| Varietal | Bobal |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Size | 750ml |
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
A single-vineyard Bobal, the 2020 La Estrecha represents the elegance and finesse this vineyard on granite soils is capable of. The full clusters fermented in 4,500-liter French oak vat, and the wine matured in used 600-liter French oak barrels for 10 months. As in all old vineyards (this is 75+ years old), it's not pure Bobal, and there might be some 10% other varieties intermixed in the field that are all picked and fermented together. It's 13% alcohol and has a pH of 3.6. It has a fruit-driven nose with juiciness and notes of strawberry, and it's round and tasty, without the depth of the 2019 I tasted next to it. There's a little more rusticity here. Time will tell, but today I prefer the 2019 to this. 4,000 bottles were filled in July 2021.
