Bodega Garzón Single Vineyard Petit Verdot 2022
£28.45
The wine
Intense violet-red. An aromatic nose combining blueberry and cherry with hints of vanilla.
Petit Verdot struggles to ripen in Bordeaux and is used there in small proportions for colour and structure. In the warmth of Maldonado it ripens fully every year and can be bottled alone, which is rare anywhere. Bodega Garzón divide their land into a patchwork of 1,150 individual plots of around 0.2 hectares each, mapped by soil and aspect and farmed separately.
The producer
Bodega Garzón
View all Bodega Garzón winesBodega Garzón is Uruguay’s most celebrated estate, the vision of Alejandro and Bettina Bulgheroni, set on granite hills in coastal Maldonado just twenty kilometres from the Atlantic. Planted from 2008 across more than a thousand individual plots, it is a benchmark for South American fine wine.
The estate’s decomposed-granite soils, known locally as balasto, and the cooling ocean breezes give wines of mineral tension, freshness and finesse. Guided by consultant Alberto Antonini and winemaker Germán Bruzzone, and housed in the first LEED-certified winery outside North America, Garzón has earned worldwide acclaim.
Tannat and Albariño are the flagships, the latter from the largest Albariño vineyard in the Americas, alongside polished Cabernet Franc, Marselan and the icon blend, Balasto.
