Comando G 'Rozas' Sierra de Gredos 2023 - 750ml

95pts Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2023 Rozas village from Rozas de Puerto Real comes from different vineyards (five) totaling five hectares on granite soils at an average altitude of 900 meters. It's juicy and has notes of pomegranate and strawberry and the powdery texture akin to chalk. It's clean and tasty. 11,298 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2024. There will also be a 1er Cru (a selection of the best two vineyards) in 2023 that I should taste next year.

94pts James Suckling

Smoke, herbs, pomegranate and some ethereal bramble berries. This is firm, nicely chewy and chalky, with sandy tannins, smoke and grilled grapefruit in the pristine, lengthy finish. Drink or hold.

About the Wine

Rozas Village comes from 5 vineyard plots of Garnacha located in a narrow valley formed by the seasonal Arroyo Mingogil at the foot of Cerro de los Corzos. Situated close to the Grand Cru Las Umbrias parcel and the source for Mingogil 1er Cru, this corner of Rozas de Puerto Real shares a variation on the theme of lithe and winsome mountain Garnacha, with bright forward red fruit enlivened with minerality and scent of mountain herbs.

Winery Notes

Comando G is a partnership created in 2008 between Daniel Gómez Jiménez Landi of Bodegas Jiménez-Landi and Fernando García of Bodega Marañones.  Drawn to the rugged mountain range of Sierra de Gredos, their aim is to showcase the elegance and finesse of high altitude, old vines garnacha.

The name Comando G comes from a Spanish 1980s cartoon based on “Science Ninja Team Gatchaman", a Japanese anime series from the 1970s.   For Daniel and Fernando, the G also represents Garnacha and Gredos.

Daniel and Fernando are redefining Garnacha.  Modeling a Burgundian system, Comando G produces a village expression Bruja de Rozas, single parcel wines they consider to be Grand Cru Garnacha and a rare Garnacha Blanca and Gris white wine.  

Vines range from 50 to 80 years old, planted on a composite of sandy, granite, slate and quartz soils.  Vineyards are farmed biodynamically.  Grapes are hand-harvested, whole cluster, fermented with indigenous yeasts in open-top French oak casks, then aged in French oak barrels, foudres, and clay amphorae.