Bodegas Ponce, La Xara Garnacha Manchuela 2022

93 Wine Advocate
"The pale Garnacha 2022 La Xara is serious but keeps the freshness and finesse. It fermented with 100% full clusters in 4,500-liter oak vats and matured in 11,000-liter oak vats and 600-liter oak barrels for seven months. It has 13.5% alcohol and a pH of 3.65, with contained ripeness, red berry fruit and a serious, austere and stony sensation. This is serious and complete, with a solid palate and a strong limestone/chalky sensation without rusticity."

93 points James Suckling
"Fresh and ripe brambly fruit with some grilled herbs, stones and racy red berries. Textured and mineral on the pure, bright and linear palate with flower and fruit notes coming through. A very engaging garnacha that I would drink glass after glass. From organically grown grapes."

Vinous Reverie Notes
Bodega y Vinedos Ponce is a family business located in Villanueva de la Jara. The project is led by Juan Antonio Ponce, a winemaker who is known for not interfering too much in the winemaking process. After working with the Telmo Rodríguez team throughout Spain, he returned to his origins to start his own project. Although Ponce works mostly with the native Bobal variety, La Xara is made with Garnacha. All processes in the vineyard are carried out ecologically, with great consideration for the cycles of nature. The strains are over 50 years old and planted in clay-calcareous soils in a Mediterranean climate.