The 2018 El Borde comes from the vineyard El Llano del Sastre in the valley Venta del Pino within DOP BULLAS. It’s an organically farmed three-hectare plot planted with 1,500 vines per hectare on very white, limestone-rich soils at 800 meters in altitude. The wine keeps varietal character and notes of Mediterranean herbs but with freshness of the higher altitude zone and a cooler year. It matured in used 500-liter French oak barrels for 10 months. It’s ripe and juicy, powerful, with grainy tannins and ripe fruit flavours.

The Wine Advocate, September 2020