From: Jumilla, Spain
Varietal: Garnacha

Taste & Critical Acclaim: What an excellent, crisp, dry rose for a great price. 100% Grenache from old, dry-farmed vineyards in Jumilla is reminiscent of Provencal rose. Zesty notes of raspberry, cherry, citrus, and white flowers are fresh, balanced, and lively.

Wine Advocate 90
"The bright ros 2024 Rosado is young and fruit-driven, with freshness despite being from the third dry and warm vintage in a row when they got very low yields. It's pure Garnacha from free-run juice with 12.5% alcohol, with notes of roses and wild herbs, a little reductive, with a soft palate, balanced and clean. It's closed with a screw cap. 60,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2024. Olivares has achieved organic certification. They have 275 hectares, 110 of them ungrafted Monastrell and the rest Monastrell, Syrah and Garnacha. They produce 400,000 bottles per year."~Luis Gutierrez



Pairing: Pair with appetizers, grilled vegetables, fish, soups, pasta and salads. Some specific ideas include pairing this lovely little rose with fish or shrimp tacos, an easy Rosé Shrimp recipe by Eric Kim of NYT Cooking, tofu larb, loaded focaccia with parmesan, arugula, salami, and sweet peppers, corn empanadas, quesadillas, beet salad with goat cheese toasts, latkes, vegetable and shrimp tempura, and even cucumber-ricotta sandwiches. 

About. "As Spain's winemaking revolution continues to flourish, one of the next hot spots promises to be Jumilla. Jumilla was one of the few places in Europe spared during the Phylloxera epidemic of the late 1800's. Virtually everywhere on the continent, vineyards were devastated and, to this day, can only be planted on grafted hybrid-American rootstock. For Jumilla, the key to its vineyards' survival was their sandy soil - which is anathema to the Phylloxera insect. And as a consequence, today Jumilla not only has some of the oldest vines in Spain, but certainly the largest number of ungrafted vines. Most of the region is planted to Mourvèdre, locally know as Monastrell. Jumilla's summers boast hot days and cool nights, resulting in fantastically ripe grapes with good acidity. Bodegas Olivares's vineyards are in the northernmost zone of La Hoya de Santa Ana. This is the coolest subzone of Jumilla, with sandy, lime-rich soils that produce intensely aromatic wines."