Finca Terrerazo Bobal Organic 2018 Red Wine

Elaboration

Bobal is one of Spain's oldest and most widely planted native varieties — and one of its most consistently underestimated. Toni Sarrión has spent his winemaking career correcting that underestimation. At Bodegas Mustiguillo, his organic family winery in Valencia operating under the Vino de Pago designation of PDO El Terrerazo, Sarrión farms old vines planted between 1945 and 1970 at 800 metres altitude with the biodiversity-first, sustainability-driven philosophy of a producer who is also the president of Grandes Pagos de España — the association that represents Spain's finest single-estate wines. The Finca Terrerazo is the most complete expression of that philosophy: hand-harvested Bobal double-selected and vinified separately by soil of origin, fermented in French wooden vats, soaked for 12 days, malolactic fermentation completed in barrel, then aged 14 months in French oak vats and 225-litre barrels without dilution or stabilisation. The result is a wine of genuine Mediterranean character, volume and the mineral freshness that 800 metres of altitude gives to old vines farmed organically by someone who understands exactly what they are worth.