Garnacha Blend 'Telescópico'

Score

94

"The 2022 Telescópico Garnacha Garnacha Peluda Mazuela is a blend from different vineyards in the villages of Alpartir, Inogés and Morata, with some new vineyards in 2022, all higher altitude (800-plus meters in elevation) and old; so, it's an improvement in the origin of the cuvée. It's bright, precise and fresh, produced with full clusters in concrete and matured mostly in oak foudre and 500-liter barrels for one year, which gives it some spiciness that I didn't see in other reds from the vintage. It's neatly balanced, with amplitude and complexity, with flowers, berries and herbs, even with citrus, and it has a medium-bodied palate. This overdelivers for the price. 13.219 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2024."

Score

93

"This shows pomegranates, rose petals and blood oranges on the nose. The palate is juicy and balanced, with awesome freshness and subtle fruit. Harmonious, elegant and incisive. Fermented with 80% whole clusters. From vineyards in Alpartir and Morata. A blend of garnacha, garnacha peluda, carinena and others. Aged for 12 to 14 months in large oval foudres."

Score

92

"The 2022 Telescópico from Aragón opens with restrained aromas of ripe cherry, wild herbs, rosemary and marjoram. lean and textured with a gentle grip, it delivers good flavor with a light, sunlit expression. A thirst-quenching red with a delicate palate."

Score

93+

"I tasted two vintages of some of the wines, like the blend of Garnacha Fina, Garnacha Peluda and Mazuela from the villages of Alpartir and Morata. The 2020 Telesc¢pico Garnacha ú Garnacha Peluda ú Mazuela was cropped from a rainy year and had a similar vinification and ,levage as the 2021 I tasted next to it‡80% full clusters, indigenous yeasts and 12 to 14 months in 500-liter barrels and 2,500-liter oak vats. It's a little more Mediterranean and riper but without excess, a vintage with more fruit, and it's juicy and has fine tannins. 19,283 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2022."

Score

91+

"The 2020 Telescópico Tinto from Bodegas Frontonio is made from an intriguing cépages of garnacha, garnacha peluda and mazuelo, with all of the vines in excess of fifty years of age. The wine includes eighty percent whole clusters in this vintage, with the bunches foot-trodden and the wine raised for just over a year in a combination of oak barrels and foudres. The wine offers fine depth and complexity on the nose, wafting from the glass in a mix of dark berries, fruitcake, hung game, fallen leaves, coffee grounds, dark soil tones and a topnote of woodsmoke. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, black fruity and peppery, with a fine core of fruit, good soil signature, well-integrated tannins and a long, complex, well balanced and meaty finish. Good juice. 2032- 2060."