2021 | Ex Occidente | Roig de la Figuera

This wine has very pleasant and lovely aromas. On the palate it is very elegant, rich and full-bodied.

Producer Information

When Thatcher’s Imports started, we were pretty convinced it would remain relatively small with a focus on Champagne and Burgundy. We were even asked in early 2022, “Will you pick up any Spanish wines?” Nothing against Spanish wines, but we didn’t think so. We took a trip to San Sebastian in late ‘22 and our friend Bernat took the train from Barcelona all the way to Madrid, just for dinner with us. Come to find out, he had been working on something pretty special over the last year or so and it just so happened to align with what we had been working on. Bernat grew up in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and realized he had a knack for tasting wine, recognizing quality and markers at the age of 15. Professionally, he was due to pursue a career in art and literature, but working harvest in the Loire at the age of 19 made him rethink that. He was quickly exposed to some of the world's greatest bottles when his passion for wine and career path came to an intersection; after two years in the Loire, he headed to Barcelona where he worked for some of the top restaurants and wine bars including Monvinic. Without much experience, Isabelle Brunet offered him a position. He has taken this theory, paying forward generosity without reciprocal expectation into the rest of his career path. A global wine list full of depth and diversity and experiences, such as pouring Egon Muller one day and having globally known winemakers the next, made it quite the influential place. He then worked for the 2-star restaurant in the Canary Islands at Ritz Carlton with Martin Berasategui and started making wine with Roberto Santana in Tenerife. This showed him how to work solely on instinct."There was no protocol, just his eyes and his nose making decisions. He taught me how to extract the right amount of "matière" from a wine, how and when to protect them. With his wines, there is purity, there is a sense of place and there is the right amount of style.“ Ambition led him to be head sommelier at Azurmendi, where his days were spent with people who had the capacity of speaking about the 1945 vintage in Bordeaux and Rioja, and jumping to what's going on in the Czech republic in a second.

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