Finca Allende, Gaminde

Finca Allende, GamindeThe nose of the 2016 Gaminde is creamy, balsamic and spicy, with plenty of new oak undertones and ripe fruit without excess. This is a clean, modern, generously oaked Tempranillo, with plenty of tannins and oak related flavors, and it needs a couple of years in bottle to digest the wood. It's nicely structured and shows power with balance in its style. 12,000 bottles. It was bottled in July 2018.

This too was quite heavily reduced and again I strongly recommend allowing this 30 minutes or so in a decanter first if you’re going to crack a bottle young

Very expressive

this is the ace in Massolino's rotation

it's layered and elegantly fleshy

rich but not a bit heavy

Belair and La Justice)

Once again firm reduction dominates the underlying fruit

floral and tea aromas

Combe du Dessus and Les Marchais aged in 65% new wood and vinified with 65% of the stems)

elegant wine

One last observation is the prominence of Cabernet-driven aromas of medical herb and wild sage

It will continue to evolve in bottle over the next decade