Venus La Universal "Venus" 2021 Organic [WA 96]

Wine Advocate 96 points.

The red 2021 Venus la Universal has a bright ruby color and a floral, perfumed and elegant nose full of wild herbs. The 60% Cariñena and 40% Garnacha fermented with full clusters with a long maceration, four or five weeks, kept in the fermentation oak vat, with the next harvest moved to another vat and then to concrete, completing some 42 months of élevage. The long élevage seems to have given it great harmony and made it very stable and subtle, the result of a slow cooking, leaving the wine nuanced, complex and terribly elegant. It has a medium-bodied palate, with very fine, chalky tannins and an elegance, inner energy and light like I have not seen before. Very elegant and fine-boned, it has a moderate 12.5% alcohol. It should develop nicely in bottle. It was bottled in February 2024. LG May 2025.