Garnacha based field blend with a small amount of Macabeo • From 80-year-old vines on slate and quartzite soils • 100% whole-cluster fermentation in open-top barrels • Aged for 14 months in 550l barrels • Certified Organic • Practicing Biodynamic
Info
Producer:
Vintage:
2023
Country:
Spain
Region:
Aragon
Appellation:
Valdejalon
Variety:
Blend - Other
Color:
Red
Farming Practice:
Practicing Organic
Sizes Available
| Full Bottle | ES-FRO-30-23 | 6/750ml |
Resources
Press & Reviews
Vinous
Score
97
Date
2025-11-26
"The 2023 Garnatxa†Macabeo La Tejera from Arag¢n opens with aromas of herbs, dried flowers, pomegranate and a hint of gunpowder over black tea undertones. Compact yet weightless, it offers a talc-like texture and subtle complexity. This modern, lightly structured red has a distinctive personality that gradually reveals its charm in the glass. The magic lies in how the Macabeo complements and further lightens the profile of Arag¢n,s sun-kissed Garnachas, resulting in a wine that feels both precise and effortless."
Wine Advocate
Score
97+
Date
2025-12-04
"The 2023 Las Alas de Frontonio La Tejera is super serious, complete and harmonious, with power and elegance. It keeps the profile from the previous years, with similar parameters of alcohol and freshness. It's perfumed and nuanced, floral and citrusy, with faint spice and earthiness, serious and mineral. Th palate is seamless, precise and chiseled, symmetric and balanced, with super elegant tannins. This wine evolves very nicely in bottle. It is very precise. 2,082 bottles, 30 magnums and two double magnums produced. It was bottled in July 2025."
James Suckling
Score
96
Date
2025-12-05
"This has floral aromas of fruit, pomegranates, citrus and underripe peaches. The palate has subtle firmness complemented by a broad yet elegant thread of fruit. It™s very compact, with lots going on and lots to unfold. Medium- to full-bodied with subtle concentration and firm tannins. Drink or hold."
REVIEWS FROM PAST VINTAGES
2018
Wine Advocate
Score
95
Date
2020-04-30
"There was a big jump in quality from 2015 to 2016, and now the 2018 Las Alas de Frontonio La Tejera feels like it's also an improvement over the 2016. It was produced with a Garnacha-based field blend, as the 1.4-hectare 85-year-old vineyard where it comes from also has some Macabeo. It's a plot on clay, slate and quartzite soils at 630 meters in altitude with a northwest orientation. They used approximately 50% of full clusters for the native fermentation in open-top oak barrels, which allowed them to foot tread the grapes. The wine matured in small (550-liter) oak vats from Italy for 14 months in a cold underground cellar. This is aromatic and elegant, ethereal, perfumed‡I have never noticed such elegance in this wine before. The palate is very elegant, with very fine tannins and subdued minerality, long, elegant. It has electric minerality and citrus freshness. This was a revelation, full of energy. 1,912 bottles were filled in February 2020."
Wine Advocate
Score
97
Date
2023-05-31
"The 2021 Las Alas de Frontonio La Tejera was produced with Garnacha interplanted with some Macabeo from a 1.4-hectare, 85+-year-old vineyard on clay, slate and quartzite soils at 630 meters in altitude with a northwest orientation in the village of Alpartir. It fermented with 100% full clusters and native yeasts in open-top concrete and matured for 14 months in Italian oak foudres. It has 13.5% alcohol, remarkable freshness and acidity and a tantalizing nose with explosive aromas of tangerine peel; the whole 2021 vintage feels quite citrusy, but this has special nuances. It's super precise as well as expressive, floral, nuanced, elegant and complex. The wine has energy and grip, with tons of flavor, flowers and tangerines, again, and tannins that are very elegant and fine. This is an awesome Garnacha with a different and strong personality. A very special wine. 4,166 bottles were filled in March 2023."
Wine Advocate
Score
96
Date
2021-11-11
Jancis Robinson
Score
17
Date
2024-03-15
"Garnacha. Very pale cranberry red. Flirtatious nose " not that concentrated but very well balanced and fruity. A real charmer for current and future drinking. There™s still a lot going on underneath that is not yet expressing itself. But I™m a bit worried about the ~POA™ for the price!"