Always among the most aromatic wines of Gredos, the 2013 Ataúlfos is sourced from a single 1.5-hectare plot of old Garnacha in El Real de San Vicente (Toledo) planted at 830 meters altitude on granitic soils. This is a wine of finesse, which in 2013 seems to have a ripe edge mixing violets and some malted cereals that made me think of some peated whiskeys; I've seen this before in some voluptuous Garnachas, and here it seems to be very subtle and add a point of exuberance to the natural elegance of the wine. It is produced with great care to preserve the character of the place through the fruit, fermenting the full clusters in open oak vats with indigenous yeasts;it then aged in contact with the lees in 500-liter oak barrels and in 1,500- and 3,000-liter foudres during a period of some 15 months. The palate shows good integration of the fruit with the oak, like there is more inner strength in the fruit, perhaps provided by the fine granitic minerality, which is a texture and a tactile sensation rather than aromas of flavors. Nice balanced, focused and poised, it should develop nicely in bottle. 1,000 bottles were produced.
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