Comando G, Vinos de Madrid (Spain) Garnacha 2019

 Inspired by the iconic 100 percent Grenache of Chatenautef-du Pape’s Chateau Rayas, Daniel Landi and Fernando García created the Comando G label in 2008.  The duo work with several small, isolated plots perched high up in the mountainous Sierra de Gredos to show how distinctive the wines can be from an area that was ignored for far too long.  Las Umbrías is their single vineyard wine from primarily granite soils that shows the most delicate and floral character of any of the parcel wines of Comando G.  Like the other Comando G wines, the 2019 Umbrias is remarkably pale in color but with robust aromas and subtle red fruit flavors that are skillfully balanced by fine tannin and mineral acidity.  Comando G is awakening Spain’s wine industry, and their Garnacha is one of its finest forms of the variety.