Casa Castillo El Molar 2020 | Jumilla

Name: Casa Castillo El Molar 2020 | Jumilla
Brand: Casa Castillo
SKU: 232
Price: 21.5 EUR
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21.50 €

Casa Castillo El Molar 2020 | Jumilla

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Casa Castillo, DO Jumilla. Vineyard on the slopes of Sierra del Molar, planted in 2005. Sandy loam soil covered with gravel. 100% Grenache.

Hand-harvested. Vatted with 30% whole grapes in small open underground vessels. Alcoholic fermentation with skins at 30 °C. Racked into foudres for malolactic fermentation in contact with lees. Aged 12 months in oak foudres. Production: approximately 40,000 bottles.

Casa Castillo El Molar 2020

Este vino tinto de Garnacha 100% procede de la Denominación de Origen Jumilla (Región de Murcia), elaborado por la bodega Casa Castillo. El viñedo se sitúa en las laderas de la Sierra del Molar, plantado en 2005 sobre un suelo franco-arenoso cubierto de gravas.

La elaboración comienza con una vendimia manual. El encubado se realiza en lagares subterráneos abiertos utilizando un 30% de uva entera, seguido de una fermentación alcohólica con hollejos a 30 ºC. Tras el trasvase, la fermentación maloláctica se lleva a cabo en fudres sobre sus lías. La crianza finaliza con 12 meses en fudres de roble, con una producción aproximada de 40.000 botellas. Según Parker, tiene un 15% de alcohol y un pH de 3,49.

En copa se presenta de color cereza brillante. En la nariz ofrece aromas a fruta madura, hierbas secas, roble cremoso, fruta roja y un toque balsámico. En boca se describe como un vino potente con fruta madura, notas especiadas y taninos maduros. Las notas de Robert Parker destacan un estilo muy joven y tierno, elegante y complejo, con una gran frescura, un núcleo de mineralidad y taninos finos.

Las puntuaciones obtenidas son de 94 puntos para Peñín y 95 puntos para Robert Parker. Peñín valora su potencia y Parker resalta la precisión, la elegancia y el equilibrio, las tres palabras con que define la añada 2020. Es un vino expresivo y aromático que combina la fuerza de la variedad con una frescura sorprendente para su graduación alcohólica.

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PEÑÍN: 94

COLOR: cereza brillante

AROMA: fruta madura, hierbas secas, roble cremoso, fruta roja, balsámico

BOCA: potente, fruta madura, especiado, taninos maduros

PARKER: 95

The perfect Mediterranean vintage produced an outstanding Garnacha. The 2020 El Molar fermented with 35% full clusters and matured in a combination of 500-liter barrels and 5,000-liter foudres for one year. The wine is very young and tender; it feels more delicate despite having a little more alcohol than the 2019 (it's 15%) and with a slightly lower pH (3.49). It's super aromatic, extroverted and expressive, floral, elegant and complex. There is great balance, and the wine feels fresher and less ripe; it's refreshing and has a core of minerality and super fine tannins with pungent flavors. There is precision, elegance and balance, the three words that define the vintage. All the wines are very good value, but this is a steal. 40,000 bottles were filled in March 2022.

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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