El Reflejo de Mikaela

D.O. Ribera del Jucar

The winery is located in La Alberca de Záncara.

Field blended vineyards comprised of ~90% Bobal and 10% mixed indigenous varieties including Pardilla, Malvasía, Moravia Agría, Moravia Dulce, and Rojal

Old, estate vineyards planted in Casas de Benítez and Pozoamargo, in the province of Cuenca.

1925-1945

Traditional dry-farmed, organic, manual viticulture. The vines are head- trained and the vineyards are plowed by horse.

Very stony soils of alluvial origin (canto rodado) deposited by the Río Jucar thousands of years ago. Below the canto rodado, the soil is sandy in texture with a high proportion of iron rich clay, and a meter below the surface, there is solid limestone mother rock.

Continental Mediterranean climate characterized by long and cold winters followed by short and hot summers, with drastic temperature changes between day and night.

The clusters are sorted, and 40% destemmed. The whole clusters (60%) and destemmed berries ferment spontaneously in stainless steel and concrete vats. Pre-fermentative maceration for four to five days, and extraction is very gentle throughout the maceration. The wine is pressed in a vertical basket press and undergoes malolactic fermentation in 70% French oak vat (5,000L) and foudre (2,200L) and 30% in concrete.

14 months in 70% French oak vat (5,000L) and foudre (2,200L) and 30% in concrete.

The valley of the Jucar River, specifically the villages of Pozoamargo and Casas de Benítez, are two of the only areas in southeastern Spain where old, traditional vineyards of Bobal have survived the mass uprooting and modernization of Spanish viticulture. These old vineyards, field blended with over a dozen forgotten indigenous grape varieties, are planted on limestone soils covered in canto rodado, or large river pebbles deposited by the Jucar thousands of years ago. El Reflejo de Mikaela is is Aurelio García's entry level village wine blending sites from the towns of Casas de Benítez and Pozoamargo.