Sindicat la Figuera - Garnatxa Negra 2018
Sindicat La Figuera is a small cooperative located in the mountains of Montsant , Spain . It was founded in 1932 in the small village of La Figuera, which lies at an altitude of 600 meters. At the time, there were 25 residents involved in creating the winery facility and helping to supply the first vintage grapes. Garnatxa , as the Catalans call it, has always been planted around La Figuera and has always been the main grape variety used for Sindicat's flagship wine. While Cariñena is usually blended with Garnatxa in Montsant, La Figuera is known for the beauty and elegance of its pure wines made from Garnatxa and is one of the few places where it is bottled on its own. The town prospered until the mid-1950s when a major storm devastated the area and the following year a severe freeze occurred. The inhabitants fled and a large part of the vineyards were destroyed and abandoned. Today, the village has barely 80 inhabitants.
The Sindicat La Figuera works with 25 hectares of Garnatxa Fina and the vines are between 20 and 70 years old. The wines are fermented with indigenous yeasts in underground concrete tanks with minimal temperature control, where they spend approximately 9 months aging on fine lees before bottling with light fining and filtration.
Grape variety: 100% Garnatxa