Brega

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.

Two small mountain plots planted in the Sierra de Pardos. These vineyards represent the vertical limit of viticulture in the valley; Mediterranean forest covers the peak of the mountain range.

1911 & 1918

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 finishes and malolactic fermentation begins spontaneously in French oak puncheon and demi-muids (50% new, 50% used).

20 months in French oak puncheon and demi-muids (50% new, 50% used)

Brega is the estate's top cuvée, a wine sourced from very old and high altitude vineyards that define the style of ripe and powerful, but fresh and mineral Garnacha de Aragón from Calatayud.