Fittingly, the “finer” wine here is even lighter in color, more delicate and refined…and just ravishingly beautiful.
It’s a Wine Advocate 95 at $40:
The palest and most ethereal of the wines I tasted was the 2021 Fuerza Bruta, which brought to mind the Las Umbrías bottling of Comando G with its weightless energy and elegance. It has only 13.5% alcohol and a low pH, with complexity and nuance. It's subtle with aromas of flowers and herbs and is perfumed and delicate, layered and deep with a medium-bodied palate with great balance, purity and length, with no room for sweetness or ripeness. It fermented with natural yeasts and 100% full clusters, had a 60-day maceration and then matured in Galician chestnut and French oak vats for around 12 months. This is stunning. Liquid granite.
One of the most fascinating and delightful wines we’ve had from Spain – or anywhere – this year.
As importer Eric Solomon explains:
Fuerza Bruta comes from Dehesa de Navayuncosa, a single vineyard of 60-year-old Garnacha planted on deep sand near the village of Aldea del Fresno, just across the border separating Mentrida from Vinos de Madrid. The uniqueness of this site results in a wine that captures the ethereal but persistent expression normally associated with Garnacha planted a far higher altitudes. If any wine at A Pie de Tierra captures the old Pinot adage, an iron fist in a silk glove, it would be Fuerza Bruta.
Drinking wines like this will make you smarter!
