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2019 Bodegas Sierra de Toloño Garnacha Rioja “La Dula Garnacha de Altura”. Light and transparent violet to pinkish ruby color, very nice brightness. Dusty, close to sandy, quality to the nose, cigarette ash, crisply focused strawberry, raspberry scents, all wound around a spine of vibrant white grapefruit zest. Light-bodied, has sufficient grip it could feel bigger to some. The citrus even more pronounced here. Would characterize it as more tarry than sandy but there’s some of the latter too. While the red berry fruit has a velvety sheen the sourness makes more impact than juiciness. There seems to be an avalanche of Garnacha coming from Spain meant to show “the other side” of the grape, a more stripped down, natural, unmanipulated, yadda, yadda stripe. On the whole I appreciate their existence more than appreciate their going down my gullet. (Composite Cork: Diam5)
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Have you by any chance had the other La Dula they make, the so-called single vineyard in reviews, not the Garnacha de Altura? If so, what’s your impression compared to this one?