Comando G - Some of the Best Grenache on the Planet

The 2020's are a stunning collection of wines, in my opinion every inch as good as the much-heralded 2016s and 2018s albeit with a touch more fruit weight than the 2018s. Like those vintages the 2020s are effortlessly stylish, the result of long, cool growing conditions and ample water albeit, yet there was a little more warmth at the end of summer that sees the wines pick up a slightly more silken texture. If the 2019s saw Comando G fighting for finesse against the warming climate 2020 sees them soaring; long, pure and very granitic. It should be a vintage in which most Gredos producers flourish, exacerbating the natural style of the region without the extreme linearity of a truly cool vintage which is what will emerge next year with 2021s, a year that promises to really divide the good the from the great. - Lachlan Barber, importer.

It seems like the Comando G way of doing things—ripe grapes that develop full aromas and flavors, vinified with a very soft hand, often with full clusters and long infusions and élevage in neutral vessels, well-seasoned oak vats, large barrels, concrete, tinaja and even glass containers—seems to have demonstrated that it’s the best way to show what the region is. The influence of the place, the terroir, the granite (and a bit of slate) and the different components, quartz, silt and others, the high altitude and the mountain climate are translated into pale and delicate wines, fine-boned, weightless but with energy and grip, aromatic, pleasant and easy to drink. - Luis Gutierrez, Wine Advocate.