After the challenging 2017 vintage comes the 2018 Llanos del Almendro, the wine they consider to reflect the elegance of the wines from the Atauta Valley. 2018 was not easy: they suffered frost and it was a slow ripening, but the warm and dry weather in September and October allowed for perfect harvesting conditions. The wine is ripe and powerful with dark berry fruit and generous spice plus a smoky and toasty twist. They have multiple micro-plots—19, in this case—and only the best are selected for this bottling, with the rest going to the Dominio de Atauta cuvée. It fermented in 1,000-liter stainless steel vats with indigenous yeasts followed by malolactic before the wine was transferred to second use French oak barrels where it completed 18 months of aging. It feels very young, lively and balanced; it's aging very slowly and has very fine, chalky tannins. 1,267 numbered bottled were filled in July 2020. Superb.