La Perdida, Proscrito 2024

Nacho Gonzalez, a trained biologist, began his journey into winemaking after inheriting his grandmother’s 70-year-old vines in Galicia, Spain. In an effort to preserve more of these old, regional varietals and winemaking practices, he has acquired around 32 parcels in the Larouco area. These are found at higher altitudes on a mosaic of granite and clay soils, climatically highly influenced by the Atlantic. Each step of the winemaking process works harmoniously with the environment, from promoting the soil microbiome in the vineyard, to adding zero preservatives at bottling. Colloquially-speaking, La Pérdida means ‘the lost one’. Inspired by the estate’s volunteer pickers who claimed they couldn’t see the bush vines hidden among the long grasses - they were lost. Proscrito 2024 consists of 10% Garnacha Tintorera and 90% Palomino. This is deeper and cleaner than previous vintages. Grapes are co-fermented in amphora before ageing in a combination of chestnut casks, old oak barrels and stainless steel. A cool, dark nose of elderberry, blackcurrant wood, wet bark and midnight jasmine with acidic, juicy flavours of violet and pomegranate. Proscrito 2024 would pair well with a tuna otoro carpaccio.