Comando G, Navatalgordo Tinto 2022

Produced using traditional methods, practicing organic farming, and biodynamic techniques. Hand-harvested, gentle, and long maceration with whole grapes. Fermented separately by parcels with indigenous yeasts in open-top French oak casks. The wine has aged in concrete vats for 10 months. Bottled without finning or filtering.

Daniel Landi and Fernando Garcia, friends since college, found themselves working in the area bounded by the Sierra de Gredos: Dani at his family’s estate, Bodegas Jimenez-Landi and Fernando at Bodega Marañones. Drawn to the mountains and rumors of small, nearly inaccessible vineyard plots located high in the Sierra de Gredos, over time they began purchasing and leasing the best sites they could find, creating their own project, Comando G in 2008. Along with many of the new innovators in the Priorat, Dani and Fernando are redefining what was previously viewed as a workhorse variety, Garnacha, into something that can rival the elegance and finesse of Pinot in Burgundy or Syrah in Hermitage.