The most valued secret
The vineyards are located in Pozoamargo (Cuenca), within the Ribera del Júcar denomination, in the east of Spain, half way between Madrid and Levante, at an altitude of 800 meters. The vineyards are divided in small forgotten plots, surrounded by pines, olive trees, almond trees and hills.
The land
Sedimentary soils with pebbles, small rocks on the surface and sandy and loamy soils in some plots.
Climate
Extreme continental weather with major thermic variations between day and night and a 450mm average rainfall yearly.
Grape varieties
Principally Bobal, Cencibel, Pardilla and some minority varieties such as Rojal, Cojon de Gallo, Pintaíllo, Rompetinajas, Moscatel, among others.
Sunshine hours
High number of sunshine hours per year with no extreme heat episodes (no more than a couple days above 35º C. ) due to the altitude. Winkler III index.
Vineyards
Small plots of less than 1 hectare planted and trained into rounded, tree like shapes. Our vineyards were planted in the 50s, 60s and 70s and a few in the 80s.
Winery
Built in 2017.
Recovers thirty 100 years old clay amphorae.
Vineyard
All our grape comes from exceptional recovered vineyards, many of them abandoned in a unique territory in Spain, and that offer again their excellent quality. See below some of the most singular ones:
El imperio
Planted in 1920, this is the oldest vineyard of the winery. 200 grapevines survive in this 0,3-hectare plot. Those grapevines just turned 100 years old and offer a great variety of grapes: Bobal is the dominant one but there are also pardillas, rojales, moscatel, etc.
Camino Romano
Planted in 1945, this vineyard has a surface of 1 hectare. It is a very well kept vineyard, with many varieties of grapes though Bobal is the dominant kind.
Incidentally, this vineyard has a water well underneath its soil, a very old fig tree and a hand excavated underground cave that used to serve to grow mushroom. It is located adjacent to the ancient Roman road that used to connect Complutum (Alcalá de Henares) to Cartago Nova (Cartagena) crossing through Pozoamargo. This is why it is relatively easy to find the typical white stones from the Roman road.
El Santillo
Alluvial soil covered with 20 cm of river pebbles on its surface.
Planted in 1975 and transformed into a trellis as a protection against wild rabbits in 2005.
Made of the Cencibel variety with 800 very low production grapevines, only 1Kg per grapevine.
This vineyard grows in a muddy clay soil and it is the only vineyard planted in this area surrounded by pine nut trees and a typical Mediterranean continental landscape made of thyme, lavender, Spanish thyme, holm oaks, etc. The surrounding landscape is just spectacular.
Hoya Corrales
Vineyard planted in 1963 in a totally different and unique sandy soil, thin sand with clay at the bottom. Adjacent to the Sandoval pine forest, one of the major pine nut forests in Spain. The dominant variety planted is Bobal but there are also white grapevines such as Pardilla, white Garnacha, and Rompetinajas, and rosé grapevines such as Rojal and Cojon de Gallo. The 0,8-hectare do not make for a big production due to their old age.
Camino Las Casas
This is our new acquisition. It is a newly implanted vineyard (2020). There we have 1200 plants from the white Pardilla variety, very typical in this region in the 50s and that is almost extinguished elsewhere. Again, the soil is just exceptional with alluvial pebbles and 40cm of lime stones on the surface. It is located in the old Jucar riverbed that used to flow into the Guadiana thousands of years ago before changing its route to Levante. This is one of the most exciting projects of recovery of old varieties in the region. This variety has not been planted in around 60 years. The elderly in the region always said: “Pardilla is the finest wine”.
