100% Garnacha from 60+ year-old vines • Slate and clay soils at 650-700m of elevation • Fermented in cement tank with indigenous yeast • Aged in underground cement tank for 12 months • Certified Organic
Info
Producer:
Vintage:
2024
Country:
Spain
Region:
Aragon
Appellation:
Valdejalon
Variety:
Garnacha
Color:
Red
Farming Practice:
Practicing Organic
Sizes Available
| Full Bottle | ES-FRO-02-24 | 12/750ml |
Resources
Press & Reviews
Wine Advocate
Score
93
Date
2025-12-04
"The red 2024 Microcósmico Garnacha is a clear step up from the Botijo from this same year. It is more serious, with more tension and more elegant and polished tannins, a subtler and more harmonious wine with citrus and floral characteristics. It's still quite primary but has complexity, depth and a mineral feeling, the texture on the palate."
REVIEWS FROM PAST VINTAGES
2022
Wine Advocate
Score
93
Date
2023-05-31
"The austere red 2022 Microc¢smico Garnacha has moderate ripeness and alcohol (13.5%) and very good freshness and acidity (pH 3.32 and close to six grams of tartaric acid per liter). It was cropped from 50+-year-old vines on slate soils, some eight hectares on north-facing plots at 650 to 700 meters above sea level and fermented with 40% full clusters that were foot trodden in concrete, with a maceration of around 30 days, where it also underwent malolactic fermentation. The wine matured in underground concrete vats for seven months. It has a showy nose, with ripeness but without excess; they had to discard some grapes because they had both green and raising grapes in a bunch. It has fine, chalky tannins that are abundant and crunchier and a dry, clean finish. Approximately 30,000 bottles produced. It was bottled earlier, in March 2023, as they found it ready."
2022
John Gilman
Score
92
Date
2024-05-14
"The 2020 Garnacha "Microcósmico" from Fernando Mora's Bodegas Frontonio comes in at 13.5 percent octane in this vintage. As I have noted in the past, this wine is crafted from organically-farmed, steep, high elevation, old bush vines, planted on stony soils of slate and sand. The exposition for the vines is due north, which helps to slow ripening. The wine offers up a classic garnacha bouquet of raspberries, garrigue, smoked meats, stony soil tones, a touch of fruitcake and a topnote of bonfire. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and fairly transparent in personality, with good depth at the core, fine soil signature and a long, complex, ripely tannic and well balanced finish. Good juice. 2034-2060."
2018
Wine Advocate
Score
92+
Date
2020-04-30
2018
Vinous
Score
90
Date
2021-03-01