Producers · Sierra de Gredos · MMXXVI
Old bush-vine Garnacha from granite sand, high in the Sierra de Gredos. A handful of named parcels, farmed by hand, bottled in numbers a cellar can count. Several of them are kept here, in bond.
The producer
Not a brand with a range — a map with names.
Comando G is the project of Daniel Gómez Jiménez-Landi and Fernando García, two friends who met studying oenology around 2005 and founded the estate in 2008 in the Sierra de Gredos, the granite range west of Madrid. The name carries three meanings at once — Garnacha, Gredos and granite — and a fourth, private joke: the Spanish title of a 1970s cartoon about a team of caped heroes. What they found in the mountains was not a style to invent but a landscape to recover: old bush-vine Garnacha planted decades ago on decomposed granite, at altitudes above a thousand metres where the grape ripens slowly and keeps its nerve.
For roughly a decade they worked without drawing a salary, driving the valleys in search of forgotten plots at a time when Gredos Garnacha was still dismissed as a workhorse grape. Their first wine, Las Umbrías (2008), came from a half-hectare of vines planted in 1951 near the top of a mountain. The turning point came in 2018, when Luis Gutiérrez of The Wine Advocate named the 2016 Rumbo al Norte one of his wines of the year and awarded it 100 points — among the first perfect scores for a Gredos Garnacha, and the moment the region entered the fine-wine conversation.
The method is deliberately quiet. Farming close to the vine and without shortcuts, organic and biodynamic, whole clusters, gentle infusion rather than extraction, ageing in large used oak. Nothing in the cellar is asked to add what the parcel did not give. The result is Garnacha of unusual transparency — pale, perfumed, structured by granite rather than by wood, and often compared to red Burgundy for its finesse.
What makes the project matter to a collector is its architecture. The wines are organised the way Burgundy is organised: a regional blend first, then village wines, then single named sites, each bottled apart because each says something different. Landi, a philosopher by training, has been called the movement's ideologue; the pair even proposed a "Sierra de Gredos" appellation that never came to be, and set down their thinking in a 2022 book, Calicata: Gredos como Terroir. In Spain that logic is still rare. Here it is the whole point.
The parcels
Drawn from the accounts of Decanter, The Wine Advocate, LittleWine and European Cellars. Record updated .
The higher the parcel, the fewer the bottles.
Villanueva de Ávila · Gredos
A tiny north-facing plot of old Garnacha on pure granite sand, high on the Ávila side of the range. Farmed vine by vine, yielding one of the scarcest Garnachas in Spain. The wine is the argument for the whole project: weightless, saline, built to age. The 2019 is recorded in this cellar.
El Tiemblo · Gredos
A steep slope of old vines above El Tiemblo, cooler and more austere in youth than its neighbours. A wine that rewards exactly what this cellar is built for — stillness and time. The 2022 is held here.
Villanueva de Ávila · Gredos
Old Garnacha around the granite outcrop that gives the site its name — the tomb of the Moorish king. Deeper and more brooding than Rumbo, from vines that have never known irrigation or haste. The 2018 rests in bond.
Rozas de Puerto Real · Vinos de Madrid
The village wine, drawn from parcels around Rozas de Puerto Real. The honest first page of the Comando G map — and, in magnum, something more: the same wine given twice the time. This cellar keeps it only in 1.5L, across the 2013 and 2022 vintages.
Defining bottlings
Barely fifteen years old, and the vertical already reads like a canon.
The first wine Comando G ever made, from half a hectare of vines planted in 1951 near the top of a mountain. The beginning of the argument that Gredos Garnacha could stand beside the great reds of Europe.
The turning point. Luis Gutiérrez of The Wine Advocate awarded it a hundred points and named it one of his wines of the year in 2018 — among the first perfect scores for a Gredos Garnacha, and the moment the region entered the fine-wine conversation.
A second hundred points. Gutiérrez followed the fruit from the harvest itself, on a sunny 17th of October, and called them some of the most perfect grapes he had seen in his life.
The palest vintage this wine has ever produced — paler even than Las Umbrías. Gutiérrez called it ethereal, perfumed and elegant, "a triumph over the natural conditions" of a warm, dry year, with the finest-grained tannins of anything he tasted from the team. Nine hundred and thirty-two bottles were filled, and twelve magnums.
Rumbo al Norte 2019, 0.75L →With the 2020, the high-water mark of the project's recent years — the wine that confirmed the site rather than the vintage as the source of its consistency.
Rumbo al Norte comes from 0.3 hectares of north-facing Garnacha at about 1,075 metres in Villanueva de Ávila, tucked among granite boulders; roughly a thousand bottles are made in a given year. Greg Sherwood MW has called it the most collectable single-vineyard Garnacha in the world. Years marked in gold are recorded in this cellar.
In the archive
Held in professional bond · custody documented · no public prices.
What is shown is the smaller part. Interest in a wine or vintage not recorded here can be left by private request.
Questions
The project of Daniel Gómez Jiménez-Landi and Fernando García, founded in 2008 to work old bush-vine Garnacha in the Sierra de Gredos, west of Madrid. The wines follow a parcel-by-parcel logic — village wines, then named single sites — closer to Burgundy than to traditional Spanish branding.
The combination is hard to repeat: old bush vines on granite sand at altitude, farmed in tiny named parcels that yield very few bottles. The single-vineyard wines are made in quantities a serious cellar can count, and demand has outgrown supply for years. Scarcity with a record is what a cellar looks for.
Two reasons. First, method: the wines are farmed and bottled parcel by parcel, as named single vineyards in a quality pyramid, so the differences between sites — not a house recipe — are the point. Second, character: grown high on granite and vinified with restraint, the Garnacha comes out pale, perfumed and mineral, with a lightness and lift that tasters more often associate with fine Pinot Noir than with warm-country Grenache. The comparison is about precision, not imitation.
The recorded part includes Rumbo al Norte 2019, Las Iruelas 2022, Tumba del Rey Moro 2018 and La Bruja de Rozas in magnum from 2013 and 2022 — all in professional bonded storage with documented custody. Most of the cellar is never listed.
Released bottles are handled through CruTrade, where condition, custody and terms stay transparent for both sides. Bottles recorded but not offered are held privately, though interest in a specific wine or vintage can be registered by private enquiry.