Vino de la Tierra de Castilla

Las Mesas, Casa los Pinos. The eastern region of D.O. La Mancha.

100% Tempranillo

Finca Los Cruces

1970

Traditional dry farmed viticulture. Organic Goblet trained vines. Cultivated completely by hand, with minimal human intervention. Harvested by hand.

Sandy iron rich soils intermixed with small stones and chalk. Very poor in organic matter. 5ft. beneath the surface is a layer of red clay.

Continental. Large temperature swings between day and night. Precipitation is very rare. A very arid climate with rain exclusively falling at the end of fall and during the winter. More than 3,000 hours of sun per year. As a result, the wines of La Mancha

The grapes are sorted meticulously at the winery, and fermented in stainless steel tanks by indigenous yeast. Malolactic occurs in tank, and the wine is transferred to second and third vintage French oak barrels for ageing.

6 months in second and third vintage French oak Bordelaise and Burgundy barrels.

Paso a Paso is the winery’s first Tempranillo produced from the estate grown vineyards planted in the goblet system. A non-interventionalist style of viticulture and enology takes advantage of the high quality vineyards and the grapes they produce.