Frontonio 2022 Las Alas de Frontonio 'La Tejera' Garnacha 750ml

My favorite wine after the ones from El Jardín de las Iguales comes from a very nice plot of old vines on slate soils with a vein of white stones, rich in quartzite and with a majority of Garnacha (there are some other scattered vines of different varieties). The floral and elegant 2022 Las Alas de Frontonio La Tejera comes from soil with some clay; and in the past, they must have used that clay to make roof tiles, and that's why the place is named the "roof-tile workshop" (la tejera). This is spectacular, even in a challenging year, when the wine keeps the poise and elegance, complexity, flowers and citrus. It's herbal, bright and textured, with an ethereal quality but serious and with inner energy and light. The tannins are very fine and elegant. I found this every bit as good as the 2021.

Score: 97 points -- Luis Gutierrez, The Wine Advocate, 2024