2020 Casa Castillo Las Gravas Jumilla

Aromas of dark plum, wild blackberry, rosemary, and crushed chalk lead into a concentrated, full-bodied palate. Flavors of ripe black fruit, cocoa powder, and Mediterranean herbs mesh with an underlying vein of graphite. The texture is broad and fine-grained, framed by ripe, integrated tannins and fresh acidity that keeps the warm-climate fruit focused on a long, mineral-driven finish.

Farmed organically across dry-farmed, bush-trained vines. Grapes are harvested by hand and fermented with native yeasts in underground concrete vats, incorporating whole clusters during maceration. The wine ages for roughly 19 months in a mix of 500-liter French oak barrels and large oak foudres to preserve fruit purity and soil expression.

Grapes come from the Las Gravas single vineyard within the Jumilla region of southeastern Spain. The blend (mostly Monastrell with small proportions of Garnacha and Cabernet Sauvignon) grows on steep, high-altitude slopes at 760 meters elevation, characterized by poor, gravelly topsoils over a pure limestone subsoil.