-C Mustiguillo Mestizaje, Valencia, Spain (750ml)
| Vintage: | 2021 |
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| Description: | About the Icons. A Monthly Wine Club Selection. Bodegas Mustiguillo is located 100 kilometers from the Mediterranean coast, at a lovely site featuring classic old country Spanish architecture set against the beautiful landscape of Valencia, Spain. Toni Sarrion traded his career in business for a life tending grapevines and making wines. His initial mission when he founded Mustiguillo in the early 1990s was to save the ancient red varietal Bobal from extinction. He began rejuvenating his family's vineyards and purchased several abandoned, old vine vineyards (at least 40 years old), with some dating back to 1917. Toni then began farming organically and making elegant, age-worthy Bobal like no one had imagined could be done. The white grape, Merseguera, was a similarly "forgotten" varietal that he also wanted to save; so, he spent four years farming and recultivating the grapes at an older vineyard site. He applied what he learned to his Calvestra vineyard in the El Terrerazo Dop. He grafted Merseguera onto 40-year-old Bobal rootstock in a block situated at 900 meters above sea-an altitude at which Bobal could not ripen appropriately, but where Merseguera flourishes. |
| Price: | $ 18.00 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
