
THE VINEYARD
After moving the land for two months to achieve the required inclination without any steep slopes, it was time to plant. We selected the varieties and grafts most suited to the soil and climate. The rows are 2.6 metres apart and face the south to shade the more fragile varieties as much as possible during the hottest weeks of summer.
The varieties we selected were mostly MONASTRELL as well as SYRAH, CABERNET SAUVIGNON, MERLOT and GRENACHE. During the formation pruning and harvest season of the first three years, we cut the grapes and let them fall to the ground to act as a fertilizer because we did not consider them to have reached a high enough quality for wine production.
In the fourth year we performed fermentation tests and coupage with 1500 kg of grapes of all the varieties, and vinification began in our fifth year. The following harvests which we proudly present in the section on our wines.

Once the decision to plant vineyards had been made, the next step was to look for the most suitable calcareous area with the best orientation, elevation, latitude, precipitation rate and climate to favour the optimal development of the vines in an organic cultivation system.
After a long period of research in several different areas of the Iberian Peninsula, we found what we were looking for in a small municipal area of CEHEGÍN called CAÑADA DE CANARA, in the autonomous community of MURCIA.
(The vineyard is marked in red and the winery in green.)

Our grapes are harvested in flat, well-ventilated cases holding a maximum of 8-10 kg which have been specially produced for food use. Once harvested, the grapes remain in the field for no longer than 15 minutes and are immediately brought to the cold store in our winery. After midday when the day is at its hottest, we manually select the grapes bunch by bunch, placing them in clean cases to await the destemming process so they can be directly top-loaded into the fermentation tanks.
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