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Casa Agrícola Tinto 2022

Casa Agrícola Tinto

2022
A Châteauneuf in Alicante
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Spec sheet

TypeRed wine
Region
Grapes
Producer
AllergensContains sulfites
Alcohol contenti14.0%
Production25,000 bottles

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.

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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

202292 PK
202092 PK
201891 PK
201692 PN
PK: ParkerPN: Peñín

Customer reviews

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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 materialStainless steel
Ageing period12 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.

SoilSandy loam / Ferritic clay