Daniel Gomez Jimenez-Landi, El Mentridano, Garnacha 2022

Received in Original Carton The new kid on the block is Vitícola Mentridana, a family and friends project from Dani Landi (Comando G) and Curro Bareño (Ca' di Mat and Fedellos) with family vineyards and some of the brands that used to belong to Landi. The first vintage is 2021, but the 2020s are already labeled and sold through this new project. In total, they have 15 hectares in Méntrida and Real de San Vicente, some owned, some rented, but all are worked by them organically (and in due time they should get the certification).  The 2022 is the second full vintage of Curro Barreño. El Mentridano comes from a 600-meter, 7.8-ha vineyard plot in the Valle del Alberche in the village of Mentrida. The vineyard boasts 40-year-old bush-vine Garnacha planted on granite soils. Curro carries on the (practicing) biodynamic viticulture that Dani Landi has utilized. The grapes are hand-harvested, and whole-cluster fermented in open-top oak vats with gentle extraction—the wine ages for seven months