The 2014 La Dama, as with the El Terroir bottling, is produced with Garnacha grapes from vines planted starting in 1903. They told me they consider 2014 a beautiful vintage, healthy and balanced (although the organic and biodynamic vineyards then to be healthy and balanced every vintage!), and a pleasure to vinify. 2014 is a very complete vintage, with ripeness and freshness, elegance and power. This La Dama is a great example of it. They select the wines from stonier vineyards, where the soils are shallower and the mother rock is very close to the surface. These plots tend to produce more austere, mineral and elegant wines, where the chalkiness of the tannins talks about the limestone soils. This has to be among the finest Garnacha produced in Spain. This shows more elegant than any previous years, possibly the best vintage to date.
Technical Details
BlendGarnacha
WinemakerEnrique Basarte and Elisa Ucar
CountrySpain
RegionNorthern Spain
AppellationNavarra
Farming MethodOrganic and Biodynamic farming practices
Aging/Cooperage500-600 L barrel aging
Alcohol14.5%
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Other Reds | Spain
WA95
$50.00
$39.95
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$34.95 6+ bottles
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| 750mL
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This is another brilliant score on a wine generally destined for the top sommelier wine lists of the world. Garnacha (Grenache) at its finest from THE terroir to grow it -- Navarra. Organic, biodynamic, with a “Burgundian” sensibility, this focuses on minerality, complexity and purity. You will be STUNNED by this wine, especially at our price!
Enrique Basarte and Elisa Ucar are a husband-and-wife team that started their own project in 2006. Before that, both of them had worked in different regions all over Spain for many years. Today, they are part of an elite up-and-coming new generation of vignerons!
Don’t miss -- 95 points, $34.95??!! Will go fast!
PAIRING IDEAS: For this particularly fantastic, fine, focused Grenache? SALMON. Simply grilled, broiled or even sous vide with a simple sauce, salmon is the jam here!
MUSIC SUGGESTIONS: Ever heard of Bacalao? Google/Spotify it - it’s bound to get you moving and grooving while sipping on this fabulous Garnacha!
About the Producer
Enrique Basarte and Elisa Ucar are a husband and wife team that have a great passion for vines, soil and wine, for those indescribable wines that are a joy to the senses and constitute one of the true pleasures of life. For them being vignerons is the best way to feel together with Nature; therefore, in 2006 they started their own project. Before, both of them had worked for many years in different regions all over Spain. Enrique, with an academic background in agronomical engineering and the career of oenology had experience in Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa, Navarra, and Ribera del Duero y Tierra de Castilla. Elisa with a degree in Economics and Business Administration and an MBA from the IESE Business School had experiences in Rioja Alavesa, Navarra, Somontano and Ribera del Duero.
