Winery: Bodega Mustiguillo
Región: Valencia – DOP Pago el Terrerazo
Vintage: 2020
Bottle: 75cl
Grape Varieties: 100% Bobal - Ecologic
Type: Red Wine barrel aged
Alcohol Volume: 14%
Serving Temperature: 16º - 17º
Finca EL Terrerazo is a very special wine made by Toni Sarrión. Classified as "Vino de Pago", the highest recognition given for the singularity of its vineyards.
Made from the indigenous grape variety par excellence, Bobal, that reflects the finesse of the terroir where it comes from as well as the characteristics of each vintage.
It is a wine of sustainable viticulture from high altitude vines, a single state at 800 meters above sea level with soils of limestone and chalky texture, where the old vines of Bobal were planted between 1945 and 1970 and dry farmed.
Production:
Traditional viticulture, double sorting table. Fermentation in 35 hl wooden tanks with indigenous yeasts for 8-10 days and subjected to light pumping and pigeage. Aged for 14 months in French oak. Bottled without stabilisation or filtration.
Tasting Notes: Quite dark in color with a marked Mediterranean character, displays spicy dark fruit, black cherries, and toasted tones. On the palate, shows volume, with a sweet and mineral feeling, good fruit intensity, fruity acidity and polished tannins. Exudes freshness on a long finish.
Notes: It will evolve nicely in bottle. Drink nicely over the next 10 years. Ecologic Wine, suitable for Vegans.
THE WINERY
Mustiguillo is a family-owned winery founded in 1999. Toni Sarrión is the creator and responsible of Mustiguillo. His aim was to restore the importance of the Bobal grape variety in the wine making, after being used mainly as a bulk wine grape, he has been working consistently and experimenting with the native Bobal to produce high-quality wines as well as a cuvee with other varieties. The bodega is set on an old country house in el Terrerazo, in the Valencian highlands, on a single estate of 87 ha of vines and other crops, on a gently sloped landscape facing north-south at an altitude of 800 meters above sea level with a marked Mediterranean climate.
At Mustiguillo, all the wines are produced from their own grapes; they apply sustainable wine growing, and all the wines are organically farmed and have been duly certified ecological by the EU since 2007. The D.O.P. (PDO) El Terrerazo was granted in 2010, and it describes all the practices that define the singularity of El Terrerazo, recognizing it as Vino de Pago. As such, Mustiguillo is one of the Spanish wine producers associated with the GPE (Grandes Pagos de España), an association that defends and promotes very high-quality single-estate wines that faithfully reflect the soils and climate where they come from, each showing a marked and unique personality drawn from a specific terroir.
