Bodegas Frontonio - Macabeo Microcosmico 2022 (750ml)

  

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Producer	Bodegas Frontonio
Country	Spain
Region	Aragon
Varietal	Macabeo
Vintage	2022
Sku	210000002192
Size	750ml

Bodegas Frontonio Macabeo Microcosmico 2022

Served @ DB's "Value Spain" Tasting

Bodegas Frontonio is the personal project of young gun Fernando Mora MW, hailing from the Valdejalón appellation (technically an IGP, not a DO) of Aragón. These scintillating wines are some of the very best being made today east of Rioja and west of Conca, and they’re already garnering effusive praise from both Luis Gutiérrez and Jancis Robinson. Best of all, prices are very fair for the high quality—and the quality begins in the vineyard: Mora and his team own fifty hectares of beautiful old bushvines in rocky clay-limestone selected for high altitude and north-facing exposition to emphasize freshness. And although this is Garnacha country (Aragón, in fact, is thought to be the birthplace of Garnacha), the whites are every bit as fascinating and delicious as the red.

Tasting Notes: Lime green in color, with aromas of jasmine, grapefruit and mineral notes. It is a well-structured wine, with a lively texture and fresh, elegant acidity. Intensely complex and silky

The 2022 Microcósmico Macabeo wants to show the potential of the white grape (also known as Viura, the main white variety in Rioja) through the fruit from 70-year-old dry-farmed vines on deep limestone, clay and stony alluvial soils at 530 meters above sea level. They did a 20-hour skin contact, the juice fermented with indigenous yeasts in concrete, and the wine matured in underground concrete tanks with the fine lees and bâtonnage. It’s varietal, serious and austere, with notes of waxy apples and hay, not too showy or perfumed, with restraint, white fruit, 13% alcohol, very good freshness (pH 3.19), clean and integrated acidity and a salty twist in the finish. 22,460 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2023.