Albarroble Tinto Garnacha Tintorera
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled lamb chops, hearty beef stew, cured manchego cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
The 2022 Albarroble Tinto is a striking showcase of Garnacha Tintorera, a rare teinturier grape prized for its red flesh and deep, ink-like juice. Grown in the high-altitude, sun-drenched vineyards of Almansa where limestone-rich soils dominate, this vintage triumphed over a hot, dry growing season. The extreme diurnal temperature shifts of the high Spanish plateau preserved a vibrant, balancing acidity against the grape's naturally intense, concentrated dark fruit profile. Vinified to capture its youthful energy, the wine offers a sensory journey through wild blackberries, sweet spices, and a distinct, stony minerality that reflects its rugged terroir.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1947 by twenty-five visionary grape growers, Bodegas Santa Cruz de Alpera is situated in the high-altitude terroir of Alpera within the D.O. Almansa in southeastern Spain. Operating as a quality-driven cooperative, the winery manages extensive dry-farmed, old bush vines rooted in nutrient-poor limestone soils at elevations approaching 1,000 meters above sea level. The estate is internationally celebrated for championing the Garnacha Tintorera grape variety, producing deeply colored, intensely aromatic, and structured red wines shaped by a harsh continental climate with Mediterranean influences. Signature bottlings, notably the Albarroble range, capture the estate's dedication to preserving traditional viticulture while utilizing modern enological precision.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Garnacha Tintorera
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
14.5%