Gran Bombero 2006

If Bombero owes much of its flavour intensity to Cariena's gnarled, bush trained old Garnacha vines among the very oldest in all of Spain! imagine what the concentration would be like if you picked fruit only from the very oldest of these vines of up to 95 years old! In 2006, the vintage that won El Bombero Best in Class at the London's IWSC the toughest show of all! Xavier Domeque did just that selecting his most prized, lowest yielding Garnacha vines, and only the smallest, ripest bunches from these ... just how deep could flavour concentration go, he wondered ... The meticulously selected fruit was treated to months in soft, vanilla oak American oak best complements velvety Garnacha and the wine was rounded to perfection ... barrel matured, reserva style what a triumph! Generous aromas of ripe dark cherries and plummy richness. Lovely, mouthcoating concentration with dense bramble fruit flavours, edged in cassis and polished with a touch of sweeter oak. Gorgeous, so smooth and very memorable! Delicious with the classic, spicy Aragonese lamb dish 'Ternasco.'