Type | Red wine |
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Allergens | Contains sulfites |
Alcohol contenti | 14.5% |
Finca Sandoval El Fundamentalista
2015Spec sheet
The wine
What does this wine taste like?
A ripe nose of cherries, violets, and strawberry jam lead to a complexity hard to believe in a wine which has hardly seen wood. The Fundamentalista doesn't need special tricks. Fresh but with ripe fruit in the mouth, accompanied by hints of greenery and a refreshing acidity. A spectacular demonstration that it is possible to create great wines without overdoing wood and that the best wines can always age with elegance. Tantalizing and silky, but lively too thanks to the tension that maintains its excellence and the earthy backbone of the clay soils. Aromas of cloves, vanilla, and wild fruits mix with scrubland to give a lightly toasted finish, brimming with fruit.
View | Picota cherry red / Garnet glints |
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Bouquet | Fruit aromas / Ripe red fruit / Spicy notes / Mineral notes / Aromatic herbs |
Mouth | Good acidity / Slightly bitter / Fruit-forward / Fresh |
Drinking and storing
Food pairing
Meat rice dishes / Grilled meat / Iberian pork
Ratings and awards
2021 | 92 PK | |
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2020 | 91+ PK | |
2015 | 90 PK | 92 PN |
Customer reviews
Winemaking
Honest fruit freely fermented with wild yeasts and respected throughout the 15 months it spends in used 300-litre barrels.
Ageing period | 15 months |
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Barrel age | Used |
Type of wood | Oak |
Vineyards
Monastrell vines planted at 800 metres of altitude over ten years ago in La Manchuela blend with bunches of Bobal grapes, a touch of old wood and the minimum use of sulphites.
Soil | Limestone |
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Altitude | 800.00 meters |
The winery
Finca Sandoval
Victor de la Serna, also known by his pseudonym Fernando Point, is a journalist and wine writer published in widely-read newspapers such as El Mundo, and one of the most highly regarded and influential wine critics in Spain. Finca Sandoval is his personal project. Started up in 1998, it took off with the barely ten hectares of Syrah they had in the heart of Manchuela, in the province of Cuenca. They were planted as a result of plans that had formed over a period of 30 years...