Young vines, only planted in 2018. As is so often the case, the first harvest and bottling is a sensation in terms of fruit and expressiveness. A good 2 hectares of terraces at an altitude of 800 meters, which is already extreme in Valencia. Northern exposure. Sandy soils with lots of rock. Limestone, chalk. Whole-cluster fermentation for 3 long weeks with natural yeast in concrete. Then racked back into concrete and malo. Only then matured without batonage for 15 months in 500 litertonneau. Extremely clear and precise and superb in its cool-climate elegance. Comando-G from Gredos sends its regards. Really chic stuff.
2022
Javi Revert Foradà 2022 6x75cl 97-98+/100 HL
Top Score: 97-98+ points
“Really chic stuff.”
Price IN BOND
£305.00 6 x 75cl Bottles
2 in stock
| Colour | Red |
|---|---|
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Valencia |
97-98+ points Heiner Lobenberg
96 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 Foradà is only the second vintage from a plot planted in 2018 on old terraces at 800 meters above sea level, a north exposition planted with Arcos and Garnacha. It fermented in concrete with 100% full clusters and indigenous yeasts and matured in a 500-liter barrel and glass demijohns for 18 months. It’s very pale, a constant in this wine, with a nose of ripe wild strawberries, very attractive, showing the effect of the very warm and dry year in the aromatics, where there’s more ripeness than in the 2023 I tasted next to it. There’s also more evolution here, a little à la Rayas, hinting on notes of brick dust and forest floor, a little decadent and baroque, with fragility. It has 14% alcohol, a pH of 3.57 and five grams of acidity. It’s very Mediterranean. Only 750 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2024.
About Javier Revert...
“The new kid on the block … It’s spicier, with notes of aromatic herbs, but it’s a little bit framed by the oak with the core of blood orange and an ethereal side. The palate has abundant, slightly dusty tannins, chalky but weightless. I look forward to future vintages…” – Luis Gutiérrez, 2021 vintage
Since taking over his family’s ancestral vineyard, La Pla de Micalet, in 2014, Javi Revert has been expanding it and replanting some of its abandoned terraces. Where he has recovered old vines of Arcos, he has planted Garnacha to compliment it. Foradà is the result – a single-parcel wine with the lively fruit of Garnacha anchored by the savory, lifted, and complex nature of Arcos. Above all, however, is the unmistakable stamp on the site, which provides freshness, focus, and fine-grained tannins.
