Pegaso Granito Cebreros Garnacha 2022
£39.25
The wine
Juicy and balanced, with wild berries and blueberries on the nose alongside floral and herbal notes. Medium-bodied, with firm yet fine-grained tannins, defined raspberry, a hint of white pepper and a distinct granite character.
Granito comes from two hectares of bush-trained Garnacha over 60 years old, planted on shallow granite at 850 to 900 metres in Cebreros, in the Sierra de Gredos west of Madrid. The vines are farmed organically and yield very little. Fermented with indigenous yeast and aged for 12 months in 600-litre barrels, it is bottled unfiltered. Pegaso is the Gredos project of Telmo Rodríguez and Pablo Eguzkiza with rally champion Carlos Sainz Sr.
The producer
Pegaso
View all Pegaso winesPegaso is a jewel in the Telmo Rodríguez portfolio, a project dedicated to reviving the ancient, high-altitude Garnacha vineyards of the Sierra de Gredos west of Madrid. It has helped establish Gredos as one of Spain most exciting regions.
The old bush vines cling to steep slopes of granite and slate at altitude, giving wines of remarkable freshness, perfume and mineral drive, a world away from the region old reputation for rustic reds. Farming is meticulous and site-specific.
The range runs from the fragrant, accessible Zeta to the soil-driven single-parcel Pizarra and the majestic single-vineyard Arrebatacapas, each an expression of granite, altitude and old-vine Garnacha.
Elegant, energetic and deeply expressive of place, Pegaso captures the soul of high Gredos, some of the most compelling Garnacha in the world.
