Breca Old Vine Garnacha

D.O. Calatayud

Munébrega, in southeastern D.O. Calatayud, in the valley formed by the Sierra de Pardos and Sierra de Peña Blanca.

100% Garnacha de Aragón, the oldest clone of Garnacha (Grenache) in the world. Garnacha was first cultivated in this northeastern corner of Spain and propagated across the Mediterranean by the Crown of Aragón.

Multiple old mountain vineyards planted in low density without terracing in the Sierra de Pardos and Sierra de Peña Blanca. (El Plano, Barranco de la Rambla, Cerro Verde, Cerro del Cura, La Laguna…)

1940-1960

Traditional dry farmed viticulture. Practicing organic gobelet trained vines. In challenging years, the winery sprays with copper sulfate once per growing season.

Calatayud is characterized by rocky slate and quartz soils that date back to the Cambrian and Silurian periods. Slate is the common soil component, and depending on altitude or location, is either found as a pure slate soil, or slate intermixed with iron rich clay or calcareous clay.

Continental Mediterranean climate - very cold winters, hot summers, and drastic diurnal shifts.

Hand harvested bunches are destemmed and the whole berries macerate in open top stainless steel vats. Fermentation is started with a pied de cuve and maceration lasts for no longer than eight days. Very gentle, eight hour press in vertical basket press. Primary fermentation completes and malolactic fermentation begins spontaneously in stainless steel in 500L & 600L puncheons and demi-muids that date back to 2010.

16 months in French oak puncheons (500L) and demi-muid (600L).

Breca is an artisanal mountain wine produced from high altitude, very old vineyards of the original Garnacha (Tinta de Aragón) which was cultivated in Aragón back to the 7th century and propagated across the Mediterranean by the Crown of Aragón. The estate's flagship cuvée.