José Pastor Selections Wine Tasting
Wednesday, Sep 14th 4-6pm
*Our Original location- 103 North SIde Square*
$20 Per Person (Wine Tasting Only)
Reservations Requested. Call 256-964-7980
Presented by special guests,
Chris Barnes of José Pastor Selections
&
Beth Farris of Grassroots Importers
The Line-Up
2021 Nanclares "Dandelion" Albarino, Rías Baixas, Spain $25.99
Nanclares Y Prieto began when Alberto Nanclares, an economist, purchased a home in Rías Baixas that included vines. Soon enough he was making wine following organic methods and later was joined by Silvia Prieto, a lab technician. The results are some of the most breathtaking white wines in Spain.
The 2021 has a beautiful amount of verve and clarity. It's a perfect vintage to showcase the wine's chalky and saline minerality. The wine flaunts a nicely expressive complexity with herbs, stone fruits, and gentle spices. We really love the wine's focus and refinement.
2021 Alfredo Maestro "Lovamor" Blanco, Ribera del Duero, Spain $28.99
Lovamor is made from 60-120 year old Albillo Mayor vines grown on clay-limestone at 700 to 1000 meters elevation in the Ribera del Duero. Fermented in steel vat with wild yeasts and around one week of skin contact, and raised in tank with the winter temperatures naturally clarifying the finished wine, which is bottled with nothing added and nothing taken away.
2019 Bichi "Listan", Tecate, Mexico $31.99
Listan is produced from 100-year-old pie franco Misión (Listan Prieto) vines grown at 2,400 ft elevation on sandy loam and granite soils in the mountains of Tecate, Mexico, right on the California border. Because the grapes are dry-farmed, yields are very low here. The grapes are de-stemmed and fermented without temperature control in 450 liter concrete tinajas. After fermentation, ½ of the cuvee goes to stainless steel vats, and the other goes to half to used barrels for 3 months. The wine is bottled without fining or filtration and just 10 ppm of added sulfur. A light ruby in the glass and at 12.5% abv, this is a supremely drinkable expression of the Mission grape with notes of floral, peppery red fruits, and refreshing briny acidity. To pair with peppered beef and dishes rich in umami.
2019 Bichi "Mistico", Baja California, Mexico $24.99
Varietals: Misión, Rosa del Peru, Tempranillo
It is a fresh, broad, and complex vino tinto with notes of red fruits, spice, and mineral, perfect to pair with carnitas, grilled mushroom tacos, and other Baja fare.
The grapes were harvested by hand, destemmed and fermented in 450L concrete tinajas., with one tinaja of Tempranillo seeing some carbonic maceration. The wine was raised for 3 months in equal parts steel vat and older oak, and bottled without fining or filtration and only 10 ppm of added SO2.
2018 Comanyia Viticola Sileo "Costers de Cornudella" Tinto, Montsant, Spain $35.99
93% Grenache, 7% Carignan. Costers de Cornudella comes from four higher elevation (530-680 meters above sea level) vineyards on the slopes around Cornudella de Montsant. The vines range in age from 20 to 84 years old, and are planted on clay, calcareous, and racorell slate soils. The grapes are hand harvested and ferment and age in a mix of amphora and 500L used French oak barrels.
2020 Alfredo Maestro "El Marciano" Garnacha, Ribera del Duero, Spain $28.99
El Marciano is Alfredo's main Garnacha bottling, made from 50-90 year-old vines grown on decomposed granite soils at a staggering 1,000-1,200 meters elevation in the Sierra de Gredos mountain range around the village of Navaredondilla...which is known for UFO sightings, thus the wine's name. Grapes are fermented - including some or all stems depending on vintage - with wild yeasts and raised in steel vat.
2019 Guimaro "A Ponte" Tinto, Ribeira Sacra, Spain $52.99
Wine Advocate: 95+ Points
"The single-vineyard 2019 A Ponte was produced with grapes from vines planted in 2010, a vineyard that used to belong to the Guímaro family a long time ago that they had to buy again and replant. It's a blend of 30% Mencía and similar parts of Caíño, Merenzao, Brancellao and Sousón. All the grapes fermented together with 100% full clusters in closed troncoconic vats with a 50-day total maceration time and always matured in 500-liter barrels. It has less color and is rather light and ethereal compared to its siblings. All the 2019s are more closed than the 2020s, and the wines are more austere and, in general, have more depth and balance, with lower alcohol. This has 13% and a subtle nose of wild flowers and herbs, nuanced and complex. This is superb for such young vines. 4,000 bottles produced."
