Marañones Pies Descalzos 2020
HK$ 329.36
Bodegas Marañones
Vinos de Madrid
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The subtle single-vineyard white 2020 Piesdescalzos has aromatic intensity and complexity but feels a bit shy and very young, following the style of the 2018 vintage, built around elegance and finesse. It fermented in a 1,200-liter Stockinger oak foudre with indigenous yeasts and matured with the lees in the foudre for a period of 12 months and was bottled straight from the foudre, unfiltered and unfined. There is nuance and detail, controlled power and subtle varietal character with a clear salty touch in the finish. 1,507 bottles produced. It was bottled in September 2021.
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Alcohol
14.0%
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Serving
Between 8ºC and 10ºC
Winemaking
Alcoholic fermentation in old French oak barrels of 600 liters. Aged for 12 months in new oak barrels of 600 liters.
Description
Nestled in the highest foothills of the Sierra de Gredos, where the vines seem to resist by sheer will, Bodega Marañones has managed to interpret the soul of the Madrid terroir with a sensitivity that borders on the poetic. " Pies Descalzos" is not just a wine, but a declaration of principles: to return to the origin, to step on the land without mediation, to understand the landscape without filters. The idea was born almost as an act of rebellion against the domestication of the modern vineyard; it was Fernando García, the soul behind the project, who decided to rescue an old Albillo Real vineyard planted at an altitude of over 800 metres above sea level, on poor, almost ascetic, granitic and sandy soils in the Peña Caballera area.
The plot, difficult to work due to its steepness and limited access, made it necessary - literally - to go in barefoot. Hence the name, but also the philosophy: minimum intervention, maximum connection. Organic farming, very low yields, rigorous pruning and manual, almost surgical, harvesting. In this corner of the Tiétar Valley, under the Vinos de Madrid Denomination of Origin, the Albillo Real, a minority and elusive variety, expresses itself with brutal purity, as if the mountain spoke without translators.
Winemaking
The grapes are harvested in small crates and quickly transported to the winery, where a process that prioritises delicacy over technique begins. After a gentle direct pressing, the must ferments spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in used 500-litre oak barrels. No corrections, no filtering, no fining. Just patience.
Ageing on the lees is carried out for 12 months, without bâtonnage, in the same old barrels that do not seek to add wood, but to let the mineral voice of the soil resonate. Bottling is done without stabilisation, with a minimum of sulphite, in search of a raw and direct expression of the vineyard.
Taste
The first impression is one of silence. Marañones Pies Descalzos does not shout; it whispers. And what it says, it says with cutting precision. On the nose, it appears with that austerity that only great Altura whites can sustain: lime zest, grapefruit peel, raw almond and a salinity reminiscent of sea air, even though we are hundreds of kilometres from the sea.
There is a vibrant, almost electric tension that runs across the palate like a sharp knife. The acidity is sharp, enveloping, and supports a firm but agile body, without fat or make-up. As it breathes, nuances of fennel, crushed stone, dried flowers and a faint echo of white fruit -water pear, unripe peach- emerge, but always with restraint, without excess.
The finish is dry, very long, with a salinity that scrapes like a granite tongue, leaving a tonic and refreshing sensation that encourages another sip. It is a wine that does not seek to please, but to provoke. An Iberian rarity for those who enjoy serious, deep, even somewhat wild whites.
Shipping to Hong Kong
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