Frontonio Valdejalon Garnacha Microcosmico 2024 CACOFFER medium-bodied red designed for drinking

medium-bodied red designed for drinking young

The sweetness

aged mostly in cement with a small portion in used barriques

Powerful and expressive with dark fruit

and now beautifully mature—this is a window into Portugal's most storied fortified wine heritage

Frontonio Valdejalon Garnacha Microcosmico 2024 CACOFFER medium-bodied red designed for drinkingBodegas Frontonio is the Aragon project of Fernando Mora MW and Mario Lopez, working old vine Garnacha in the under the radar Valdejalon region (an IGP rather than DO). Microcosmico is the entry to the range: 100% Garnacha from 60+ year old vines on slate and clay at 650 700m, foot trodden with around a quarter whole clusters, native fermented and raised seven months in underground concrete vats. Mora calls it 'an austere and sincere Garnacha,' a