• Colour

  White

• Vintage

  2010

• Producer

  Bernabeleva

• Country

  SPAIN

• Region

  MADRID

• Product code

  11BERN1B2010

• Availability

  1 case

Producer Information

Bernabeleva is a 74 acre vineyard mainly planted with Garnacha, Albillo and Moscatel. The large part of the vineyard was planted in the 1920's and 1930's and this is where the Garnacha comes from. Bernabeleva is practicing biodynamic wine making, and will be 100% certified biodynamic as of their 2009 vintage. They ferment their wines in large, upright old wood fermentors with long macerations and use indigenous yeasts. Their vineyards are comprised of sandy soils (decomposed granite), at elevations of 550 to over 1,000 meters. Many of their vines are over 80 years old, with a minimum vine age of 30 years. The location of their vineyards and their altitude result in wide diurnal temperature shifts, allowing for ripeness with great balance.

Raul Perez is the consulting winemaker on the project and the day-to-day winemaker is a Catalan man named Marc Isart Pinos. Their wine rarely leaves the Madrid area, typically disappearing immediately into the city's numerous wine bars, restaurants, and people's homes. When the Bibendum team first tasted these wines we were quite simply awe struck, the white wine made from a very rare grape variety called Albillo, it is unlike anything any of us had tasted before, amazingly high in glycerol it is really something special.