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Pepe Mendoza Mares de Luz Monastrell-Giró, Alicante 2019
Red Wine from Spain
A fruity and peppery southern Spanish red from vineyards in Alicante. The monastrell grape endows a blackberry richness and peppery notes backed by the succulence of giro, a local grape which Pepe believes is connected with garnacha or possibly Sardinia.
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Code: SP17021
Wine characteristics
- Red Wine
- Full-bodied
- Mourvedre
- 75cl
- Drinking now
- 14% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, natural
Pepe Mendoza
Based in Alicante, Pepe Mendoza was born into Spanish-wine royalty (his father Enrique helms one of the most successful family wineries in the country) and crafts wines of purity, depth and elegance. His style is a rejection of the high-volume, low-character methods of the bigger conglomerates and the resultant high-alcohol blockbusters, instead focusing on a more terroir-focused approach. The results are very impressive. He works only with native grapes (monastrell, alicante bouschet, muscatel, macabeo and the very rare giro are all grown) and employs native yeasts for fermentation, and he takes a hands off approach to winemaking, intervening as little as possible in the process to create wines that very much speak of their origins.
JancisRobinson.com
Read moreMid garnet. There is real savoury interest on the nose of this wine that is not hot or flabby. Really lovely fruit and structure with a strong saline note. Fresh and lively. Clean and very much more...
Midweek Wines
Blackberry and cherry flavours complemented by traces of thyme, cocoa and the sweeter spices.
wine-pages.com
Read moreFrom Alicante, this is 50% Monastrell, aka Mourvèdre, along with 50% Giro (a local name for Grenache). It was aged 10 months in 500-litre Allier oak barrels. Really nice and ripe, up-front red fruitiness...
The Observer
Read more… this south-eastern Spanish red is full of local character, charm and solar-powered vibrancy, with brightly aromatic, plumply juicy blackberry fruit, Mediterranean herb and pepper seasoning, and a...
timatkin.com
Pepe Mendoza Mares de Luz Monastrell Giro, Alicante 2019
Daily Record
Read moreMonastrell (mourvedre in France or mataro elsewhere) can be a rugged and slightly rustic grape. However, producers in its place of origin (around Valencia in Spain) are taming it well, as this 50:50 blend ...