Bodega Comando G is made up of Fernando García, Daniel Gómez Jiménez-Landi and Marc Isart. They met in 2005 while at university where they forged their friendship based on a mutual passion: making first-rate Garnacha wines, which capture and express the terroir of the unique plots where the grapes are grown.
Three years later, in 2008, they launched the Comando G (G for Garnacha) business venture. Although there are some who affectionately call them the ‘enochalados’ (‘crazy oenologists’), in reality, this ‘online cooperative bodega’ (as described by El Mundo Vino) is carrying out the very serious task of searching for old-vine vineyards planted with the Garnacha grape variety in the Sierra de Gredos, between the provinces of Madrid and Ávila.
Here, largely abandoned bush vines grow among fig and olive trees at high altitude. With big day-to-night temperature swings ripening intense, well-balanced fruit, it’s the perfect spot for Garnacha. Farming is biodynamic and fermentation takes place in open-top casks with wild yeasts. The range is organised along Burgundian lines, with ‘village’ wines rising to superior, single vineyard bottlings with their own characters.
Las Iruelas is a single vineyard wine from 60+ year old vines planted on slate, quartz and clay soil, 1000 metres above sea level.
Pair it with Beef, Lamb and sheep, small game and birds…or someone that will help it become memorable
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