El Enemigo (Aleanna), Gran Enemigo Gualtallary Single Vineyard Cabernet Franc other_regions_italy sour cherry and pepper

sour cherry and pepper

and in this powerful and ripe year

palate coating and remarkably rich flavors possess an opulent mouth feel and serious power on the amazingly long and intense finish

Quintessential Bollinger bouquet

There is very good verve and punch to the detailed and mineral-inflected middle weight flavors that culminate in a focused

El Enemigo (Aleanna), Gran Enemigo Gualtallary Single Vineyard Cabernet Franc other_regions_italy sour cherry and pepperThe 2010 was a hard act to follow, and the 2011 Gran Enemigo Gualtallary Single Vineyard had to fulfill great expectations. There is less color in this 2011 (I popped a bottle of the 2010 for comparison) and more notes reminiscent of Cabernet Franc (Alejandro Vigil harvested even earlier in 2010), because it is mostly Cabernet Franc from a very chalky vineyard in Gualtallary at 1,430 meters altitude that fermented together with a small percentage of