Wine from Plot: Mil Cepas Place: Palomera (Casas del Rey, Valencia) Denomination of Origin: Valencia Production: 2025 bottles Variety: 100% Bobal
Mil Cepas Bobal
Vineyard age
70 years, on a single 0.9 ha plot. We work with traditional, organic viticulture, always seeking healthy, ripe, and balanced grapes. An excellent raw material. All the work in the vineyard, winter pruning, green pruning and harvest, monitoring of ripening are carried out by Manuel, Paloma and their team. Only natural treatments have been carried out in the vineyard, and the vineyard and wine are certified organic.
Soil type
Sandy, with gravel in the subsoil, poor, fresh, loose and well drained. Manual harvest on October 5, at the optimal ripening moment of the plot. Very hot and dry summer vintage, with several waves of extreme heat but at the end of summer wide temperature differences between day and night, which gives the wine great freshness and elegance, with a lot of fruit, floral notes and a good strain.
Vinification
Whole grain, uncrushed, 15% whole bunch with stem. Prefermentary cold maceration for 4 days at 12ºC to extract aromas. Fermentation at 22ºC in winepresses with native yeast, seeking respect and the typicality of the raw material. Spontaneous Malolactic Fermentation of a wine in French oak barrels. Aging a wine for 14 months in French oak barrels. In the search for excellence, we have incorporated the first natural cork stopper in the world with a non-detectable TCA guarantee, NDtech Mil Cepas technology, our range of Plot Wines is the pride of our family, which we expand with this vineyard bobal old, organic, with a unique terroir of sandy soil, a very direct wine with a lot of fruit and floral notes, in the mouth it is fresh, and with good tension.