Bodega Comando
La Bruja Avería Rozas de Puerto Real Grenache
Madrid, Spain
Third times a charm! App keeps crashing on me.
thanks @Les Doss for the gift!
Tarragon and pomegranate seed permeate the nose, and give a the impression of a huge punch getting ready to smack you up side the pallete.
Yet, the wine comes on light and full juice blackberry, then starts its filtration through gravel, and root. Valencia orange like acidity and young sapling tannins bring this wine to a very interesting finish. Yum.
Third times a charm! App keeps crashing on me.
thanks @Les Doss for the gift!
Tarragon and pomegranate seed permeate the nose, and give a the impression of a huge punch getting ready to smack you up side the pallete.
Yet, the wine comes on light and full juice blackberry, then starts its filtration through gravel, and root. Valencia orange like acidity and young sapling tannins bring this wine to a very interesting finish. Yum.
snow boots today? better off with this Spanish boot 👢 Comando Garnacha "La Bruja de Rozas,” a bright, smooth, all-Grenache red-berry wonder from vineyards in the village of Las Rozas de Puerto Real near #Madrid - go #Garnacha #Spain 🇪🇸
snow boots today? better off with this Spanish boot 👢 Comando Garnacha "La Bruja de Rozas,” a bright, smooth, all-Grenache red-berry wonder from vineyards in the village of Las Rozas de Puerto Real near #Madrid - go #Garnacha #Spain 🇪🇸
Jan 4th, 2018
Great to revisit. Pure, elegant, perfumed, and terroir driven grenache. Great mineral backbone, laced with spiced plum, tobacco and roasted herb, potpourri and crushed granite.
Great to revisit. Pure, elegant, perfumed, and terroir driven grenache. Great mineral backbone, laced with spiced plum, tobacco and roasted herb, potpourri and crushed granite.
Jul 12th, 2017
Garnacha at its finest, sourced from vineyards at about 800 meters around Rozas del Puerto Real, and aged in old oak foudres. Fresh and lively with exquisite aromas of strawberries, raspberries, lavender, thyme, licorice, and crushed rock. A light bodied red with sweet red fruits on entry, crunchy refreshing midpalate with some umami notes followed by saline minerality that intermixes with exotic spices. Easy to drink and quite refreshing.
Garnacha at its finest, sourced from vineyards at about 800 meters around Rozas del Puerto Real, and aged in old oak foudres. Fresh and lively with exquisite aromas of strawberries, raspberries, lavender, thyme, licorice, and crushed rock. A light bodied red with sweet red fruits on entry, crunchy refreshing midpalate with some umami notes followed by saline minerality that intermixes with exotic spices. Easy to drink and quite refreshing.
1 person found it helpfulJun 11th, 2018
Spice, dusty earth, red fruit, stemmy, hot, fresh, touch of brett.
Spice, dusty earth, red fruit, stemmy, hot, fresh, touch of brett.
Sep 27th, 2018
This might be my affordable red of the year. Bottle after bottle, this stuff just blows me the fuck away!
This might be my affordable red of the year. Bottle after bottle, this stuff just blows me the fuck away!
Nov 1st, 2017This may be one of the most exciting Garnachas I've ever had. Elegant, long and pretty with just a kiss of brett that doesn't mask the fruit or granitic terroir. Calls to mind Rayas but with the playfulness of Gramenon. How am I going to keep my hands off the Las Umbrías & Tumba del Rey Moro?
This may be one of the most exciting Garnachas I've ever had. Elegant, long and pretty with just a kiss of brett that doesn't mask the fruit or granitic terroir. Calls to mind Rayas but with the playfulness of Gramenon. How am I going to keep my hands off the Las Umbrías & Tumba del Rey Moro?
Jun 21st, 2017
To me good wine stands out from average wine when I can sense three things from it: time, place and intention.
This rustic garnacha clearly carries these three indices.
The top layer of smell is rustic- farm, soil. Sticking my nose in the glass I'm greeted with a maraschino liquor soaked cherry wood barrel.
The palate tells me it's been maturing and mellowing for three quarters of a decade - this is mature but eagerly waiting to be opened. There aren't layers to this- it's straight forward, direct, open and expressive. Elegant in it's simplicity but certainly not posh. Dry, but very much alive, like the garrigues that was once rooted where this vineyard now stands. This is central Spain.
To me good wine stands out from average wine when I can sense three things from it: time, place and intention.
This rustic garnacha clearly carries these three indices.
The top layer of smell is rustic- farm, soil. Sticking my nose in the glass I'm greeted with a maraschino liquor soaked cherry wood barrel.
The palate tells me it's been maturing and mellowing for three quarters of a decade - this is mature but eagerly waiting to be opened. There aren't layers to this- it's straight forward, direct, open and expressive. Elegant in it's simplicity but certainly not posh. Dry, but very much alive, like the garrigues that was once rooted where this vineyard now stands. This is central Spain.
Been trying to track down the Comando G wines for ages, and though this may only be their village-level wine it did not disappoint. Leaping from the glass initially with aromas of Vicks 44, red licorice, and smoky spice, the wine quickly tightens up and starts to betray its granitic heritage, as well as a delightfully complexing barnyard-y, Bretty edge. Whole clusters lend a wonderful, angular frame of tannin that help to enclose a ripe, glossy core of red stone fruit (cherry, plum). The minerality here gives this otherwise punchy, mouthwatering wine a really effortless feel, like a raptor riding thermals. Gobsmacking stuff.
Been trying to track down the Comando G wines for ages, and though this may only be their village-level wine it did not disappoint. Leaping from the glass initially with aromas of Vicks 44, red licorice, and smoky spice, the wine quickly tightens up and starts to betray its granitic heritage, as well as a delightfully complexing barnyard-y, Bretty edge. Whole clusters lend a wonderful, angular frame of tannin that help to enclose a ripe, glossy core of red stone fruit (cherry, plum). The minerality here gives this otherwise punchy, mouthwatering wine a really effortless feel, like a raptor riding thermals. Gobsmacking stuff.
Jan 26th, 2019