| Type | Red wine |
|---|---|
| Region | |
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| Producer | |
| Allergens | Contains sulfites |
| Alcohol contenti | 14.0% |
| Production | 25,000 bottles |
Casa Agrícola Tinto
2022A Châteauneuf in Alicante
ORGANIC
92
PARKER
Spec sheet
The wine
Pepe Mendoza Casa Agrícola is the personal project of Pepe Mendoza, oenologist for 25 years at the Enrique Mendoza winery. Pepe cultivates several local grape varieties in vineyards covering just over 24 hectares in Alt Vinalopó and Marina Alta. Taking his inspiration from great wine producers such as Domaine Charvin in Châteauneuf du Pape, Pepe ensures the fruit is the main star in his winemaking processes. Casa Agrícola Tinto is the perfect example of this, offering a pure expression of the terroir.
What does this wine taste like?
Casa Agrícola Tinto represents the essence of the Mediterranean in a bottle. Three varieties with different characters but sharing the features of the land and sea enjoyed by these vineyards. Strong but pleasant, with hints of cherry skin and gentle orange peel embellished with the fine fragrances of white and pink peppercorns and violets.
Clearly defined with a mineral heart, it has a wide and deep body with a good volume. A perfectly balanced and wonderfully elegant velvety mouthfeel, brimming with a Mediterranean profile of undergrowth, resin, rosemary, and rockrose.
The grape stems add a degree of freshness and tannicity, altitude gives acidity, and the sea provides a pleasantness to its character. A pure expression of fruit in a bottle with no tricks, just as the wild local yeast meant it to be.
A long and lingering aftertaste.
View | Picota cherry red / Violet glints |
|---|---|
Bouquet | Fruit aromas / Red fruit / Floral scents / Undergrowth notes / Resin / Balsamic notes / Rosemary / Thyme / Cistus |
Mouth | Balanced / Fresh / Flavoursome / Good acidity / Fruit-forward / Pleasant finish / Long |
Drinking and storing
Best consumed at 16 ºC any time during the five or six years after its harvest date.
Serve between 15ºC and 17ºC
Food pairing
Cured cheeses / Rabbit lamb with fine herbs / Iberian sausages / Meat rice dishes / Grilled meat
Ratings and awards
| 2023 | 92 PK | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 92 PK | |
| 2020 | 92 PK | |
| 2018 | 91 PK | |
| 2016 | 92 PN |
PK: ParkerPN: Peñín
Customer reviews
Winemaking
A blend of Monastrell or Mouvèdre (70%) and Alicante Bouschet (3%) from Alto Vinalopó together with Giró (27%) from Marina Alta.
Each variety is harvested separately when they are at their ideal moment of ripeness: Giró in early September, and Monastrell and Alicante Bouschet at the end of the month.
Gentle pressing. Fermented with local yeast and 10% of the grapes with stems. Refined for one year in a 10,000-litre stainless steel tank to conserve all the fruit and primary aromas.
| Vinification material | Stainless steel |
|---|---|
| Ageing period | 12 months |
Vineyards
The vineyards are worked using organic agricultural methods. The Monastrell and Giró goblet vines are dry-farmed, whereas the Alicante Bouschet plants are grown on trellises and watered a little.
Giró vines are planted in iron-clay soils, and the Monastrell and Alicante Bouschet ones in sandy-loam soils.
| Soil | Sandy loam / Ferritic clay |
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