El Molar 2017 | Casa Castillo | Jumilla

Name: El Molar 2017 | Casa Castillo | Jumilla
Brand: Casa Castillo
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El Molar 2017 | Casa Castillo | Jumilla

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Casa Castillo, DO Jumilla. Vineyard planted in 2005 on the slopes of Sierra del Molar. Sandy loam soils covered with gravel. 100% Garnacha. ~32,000 bottles.

Hand-harvested. Vatted with 30% whole grapes in small open underground lagares, with alcoholic fermentation in skin maceration at 30°C. Transferred to oak foudres for malolactic fermentation in contact with the lees. Aged 12 months in oak foudres.

El Molar 2017 – Casa Castillo

Se trata de un vino tinto de la Denominación de Origen Jumilla, en la Región de Murcia, elaborado por la bodega Casa Castillo con uva 100% Garnacha de la añada 2017. El viñedo se encuentra plantado en 2005 en las laderas de la Sierra del Molar, sobre un suelo franco-arenoso cubierto de gravas.

La elaboración inicia con una vendimia manual y un encubado con un 30% de uva entera en pequeños lagares subterráneos abiertos. La fermentación alcohólica en maceración con hollejos se realiza a 30°C. Posteriormente, el vino se trasiega a foudres para llevar a cabo la fermentación maloláctica en contacto con las lías y una crianza de 12 meses en foudres de roble. De la añada 2017 se produjeron 28.000 botellas, embotelladas en febrero de 2019.

Las puntuaciones y descripciones de los críticos registrados son las siguientes:

Peñín (94): Destaca un color cereza brillante con notas aromáticas balsámicas, especias dulces, hierbas de monte, fruta roja y un toque terroso. En boca muestra un carácter especiado y balsámico con buena acidez.
Parker (94): Resalta una nota de fruto rojo aguda en la nariz, observando un vino con mucha luz, algo notable en una añada cálida y mediterránea como la de 2017. Se percibe como una Garnacha con carácter de añada fría, abundante en fruto rojo brillante. El crítico lo calificó como completamente armonioso y relajado al probarlo dos semanas después del embotellado, considerándola quizá la mejor añada de este vino.

El resultado es un vino de color más claro y nariz más fragante que lo hace fácilmente reconocible en la producción de Casa Castillo.

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PEÑÍN: 94

COLOR: cereza brillante

AROMA: balsámico, especias dulces, hierbas de monte, fruta roja, terroso

BOCA: especiado, balsámico, buena acidez

PARKER: 94

There is a high-pitched red fruit note on the nose of the 2017 El Molar, and it's a wine with a lot of light, something that is quite remarkable for a warm and Mediterranean year like 2017. This is a Garnacha that feels like a wine from a cool year, with plenty bright red fruit. I tasted it two weeks after it was bottled, and it felt completely harmonious and relaxed. As with most of the 2017s, this seems like the finest vintage for this wine. It has a lighter color and a more fragrant nose, and it’s immediately identifiable within the Casa Castillo range. 28,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2019.

Learn more about Casa Castillo

The Casa Castillo estate was bought in the 1940s by José Sánchez-Cerezo, and at first it was used to store esparto grass and aromatic herbs. It held an old winery, dating from 1870, left abandoned until 1991, when Nemesio Vicente, Sánchez-Cerezo's son-in-law, proposed recovering it. The first vintage was made that year, and the first wine, Casa Castillo Crianza 1991, reached the market in 1993.

Today it is run by the siblings Guillermina, Julia, Marisol and José María Vicente Sánchez-Cerezo. José María had begun studying Architecture and dropped it when the first family harvest came along, to dedicate himself to wine.

The estate covers about 400 hectares beneath the Sierra del Molar, at around 700 metres, with almond and olive trees among the vines. Viticulture is certified organic, dry-farmed and bush-trained, on soils of calcareous sand and limestone gravel. The main variety is Monastrell, with Garnacha and Syrah.

They work with native yeasts and part whole-cluster. El Molar is Garnacha from the slopes of the sierra, with 30% whole grapes in open underground lagares and 12 months in oak foudres. Las Gravas, from the stoniest soils of the estate, is 90% Monastrell and 10% Garnacha. The Vino de Finca, born in 2015, spends 12 months in neutral 500-litre demi-muids.

Pie Franco 2020 was in 2022 the first wine from the Jumilla DOP to receive 100 Parker points, from Luis Gutiérrez. It comes from ungrafted vines in the La Solana plot, planted by José María's grandfather.

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