Bodega Juan Carlos Sancha Ad Libitum Maturana Tinta, Rioja DOCa, Spain

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The peppery 2017 Ad Libitum Maturana Tinta is sort of a Mediterranean Bordeaux, with the herbal and spicy notes of ripe fruit. It was produced with one of the first vineyards planted with the variety (21 years ago), which was only allowed in Rioja in 2009. If you have not yet heard, Maturana Tinta is Castets, a relative of Carmenere, which explains the aromatic profile. However, it handles well the green character that I find in too many examples from Rioja, coming through as ripe and balsamic without excess, with good freshness and a fine palate. 6,500 bottles produced. It was bottled in September 2018.

The red 2014 Ad Libitum Maturana Tinta is very peppery and herbal, with strong aromas of pepper and herbs, quite distinct and different and unlike any other wines from Rioja. The profile is closer to a Carménère from Chile than anything else I can think of. This is one of those love-it or hate-it wines, quite good in its class. 14,500 bottles produced.

The 2013 Ad Libitum Maturana Tinta showed a combination of herbal and cooked aromas that made me think of some Carmenere from Chile. The burn sensation is also present in the palate. I cannot say I love it. If I found the herbal character had almost disappeared in 2012 and in this 2013, it is again at the forefront. 17,500 bottles produced.

Proprietor Juan Carlos Sancha talks about 2012 being the best vintage in the last 30 years in the small zone of Ba?os de Río Tobía where he is. The 2012 Ad Libitum Maturana is surely unusual. The nose reminds me more of a cool vintage in the Northern Rh?ne with its raspberry leaf aromas and smoky bacon than the pungent herbal notes of a Chilean Carmenère of which the Maturana Tinta is a relative. Perhaps the ripeness was full that year, and the medium-bodied palate shows a remarkable absence of vegetal flavors, it's austere, linear, with fine-grained tannins and very good acidity. It will be fascinating to see how this wine ages. 17,500 bottles.

The 2011 AD Libitum Maturana Tinta shows less dark color and riper, more aromatic aromas than most of the wines I’ve tasted from this enigmatic varietal, an obscure cousin of the Cabernet family called Castets in France, with perfumed notes of cherries, red licorice and ripe plums, with some spicy, pleasant peppery notes in the background and the wood impressively well-integrated into the wine. The palate is ripe and juicy, with silky tannins, and clean fruit flavors. I’d describe this as an Atlantic version of a Garnacha with some more volume. Very pleasant and approachable. Drink 2014-2017. Juan Carlos Sancha has investigated about the new old Rioja varieties and produced one of the first examples of Tempranillo Blanco and Maturana Tinta. After working for different wineries, this is a young (created in 2008), small personal project where he produces no more than 25,000 bottles per year from 5.5 hectares of organic vineyards around his winery in the village of Banos de Rio Tobia in the coldest part of Rioja Alta in the Najerilla valley and a small plot of old-vine Garnacha planted in 1917. He’s come up with a clever way to produce and age his reds in rotating 500-liter oak barrels. This is a name to watch. Imported by C&P Wines, LLC, New York, NY