2025 VINTAGE RATING IN THE JUMILLA PROTECTED DESIGNATION OF ORIGIN
THE JUMILLA PDO REGULATORY BOARD’S TASTING PANEL RATES THE 2025 VINTAGE “VERY GOOD”
THE 2025 HARVEST WILL BE REMEMBERED AS ONE OF CONTRASTS: A RAINY SPRING, HAIL, AND A HOT SUMMER WITH HEAT WAVES THAT STRESSED THE GRAPES AT HARVEST TIME.
Last Friday, May 15, day of Saint Isidore, patron of farmers, the official vintage rating tasting was held at the Jumilla Wine Museum. The tasting panel of the Jumilla Protected Designation of Origin Regulatory Board, composed of 17 members, conducted the tasting. Specialists Juan Miguel Baños, Loren Gil, María Palencia, Gertrudis García, Pascual Tomás, Agustín Miñana, Jennifer Pérez, Antonio Fernández, Bartolo Abellán, Diego Cutillas, Pedro Cutillas, Silvano Guirao, Juan Corredor, Juan Miguel Benítez, Pascual Olivares, Luis Javier Pérez, and Vicente Micó tasted 35 wines from the 2025 vintage at the tasting organized by Joaquín Salamero Saorín, head of the tasting panel for the Jumilla PDO Regulatory Board, and Carolina Martínez Origone, the Board’s Managing Secretary.
The best wine of 2025, according to the winemakers, is a Monastrell red. This vintage shows great depth of colour, great fruit, greater concentration, and is very aromatic. The wines are fluid and have good volume on the palate. Fine, smooth tannins and very good quality.
The tasting panel has determined that the quality of these wines is VERY GOOD, thus describing a very challenging vintage, which the winegrowers and wineries managed with dedication and meticulous precision. After three years of extreme drought, the 2025 vintage will be remembered for the intense hailstorm that devastated more than 4,000 hectares of vineyards and the end of the severe drought that had plagued the area since 2022.
The spring rains were very beneficial, but they weren’t enough to revive the vineyards, as the vines were already suffering from excessive fatigue after three years of hardship. Furthermore, the intense heat wave in August accelerated the ripening process of the vines and forced an early harvest, a true challenge for the farmers and winemakers of the Jumilla PDO.
The wines now being released from the 2025 vintage are fruity, balanced, and of excellent quality. Furthermore, the Jumilla PDO wineries continue to innovate and offer new products to consumers. Around twenty new wines are being launched with this vintage, winning over both consumers and specialized critics. New wines are being released, contemporary styles for consumers who demand fresher and lighter wines, without forgetting classic styles for the most loyal customers.
Finally, the intense drought can be considered over, and in 2026 the region is in good health. The abundant, gentle, and repeated rains of winter and spring bode well for a full recovery of the vineyards and a promising harvest.
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About the Jumilla Protected Designation of Origin
The Jumilla Protected Designation of Origin has a winemaking tradition that dates back to the remains of Vitis vinifera – along with tools and archaeological remains – found in Jumilla dating back to 3000 BC, the oldest in Europe.
The production area, at altitudes ranging from 320 to 980 meters and traversed by mountain ranges reaching up to 1,380 meters, is bordered on one side by the southeasternmost part of the province of Albacete, including the municipalities of Hellín, Montealegre del Castillo, Fuente Álamo, Ontur, Albatana, and Tobarra; and on the other by the northern part of the province of Murcia, with the municipality of Jumilla. It comprises more than 20,000 hectares of vineyards, mostly dry-farmed and trained in the traditional bush vine system, located on predominantly limestone soils.
Old vines in the Jumilla PDO represent more than 20% of the total area, with the Monastrell variety being the most prevalent (90% of the old vines). It is estimated that a large portion of these old vines are planted on their own rootstock, at least 1,000 hectares, with 89% being Monastrell, 6% Airén, and 3% Garnacha Tintorera.
The climatic characteristics, with scarce rainfall barely reaching 300 mm per year and more than 3,000 hours of sunshine, provide ideal conditions for organic farming, which predominates in this designation of origin.
