Exploring Jumilla
With its distinctive wines, regional gastronomy and unique visitor attractions, Jumilla has plenty to offer wine tourists. Andrew Black rounds up the highlights and recommends white, rosé and sweet wines to try. As would-be travellers to Spain look forward to the...
Exports Of Jumilla Wine To The USA Continue Their Upward Climb
In the past five years, exports from Jumilla to the United States have continued their upward trend, with an increase of 30% over 2015. Between August 2019 and July 2020, more than 3 million bottles of DOP Jumilla wine were imported into the US. This is an increase of...
Top 10 wines for spring
We’ve rounded up 10 medal-winning wines and one sparkling from our Spring Tasting, taking in a Greek white and red, Israeli Syrah and a Chardonnay from an American sporting legend. The following wines are a selection of highlights from The Spring Tasting by the drinks...
Jumilla wines get new certifying back label
Newly bottled wines within the Jumilla PDO will carry an updated back label that has been given a refresh to include elements such as braille and invisible ink. The new certifying back label includes an illustration of Monastrell vine roots in a hat tip to the...
The best wines from The Spring Tasting
We bring you the best wines from The Spring Tasting, featuring an exciting range of new releases that are due to hit the shelves over the coming months. While other seasons are associated with a particular drink, be it warming reds for winter, refreshing rosés for...
The best wines from The Autumn Tasting 2020
While our usual Masters competitions focus on a grape, region or style, our inaugural Autumn Tasting was open to all, and brought to light some exciting wines from parts of the world that might normally have been overlooked, writes Patrick Schmitt MW. This report...
Visiting Royalty, Monastrell, the Queen of Jumilla
Did you know that Spain is ranked as the number one country in the world with the most area of cultivated grape vineyards? And when it comes to wine regions and varieties of wine produced here, there is no shortage of topics to write about. Spain is rich in history...
Jumilla: Grapes and flavours
Perfectly suited to the climate and growing conditions of Spain’s high plateau, the Monastrell grape is revered by Jumilla’s winemakers – and a new generation is pioneering the evolution of expressive modern styles Elena Pacheco freely admits that a couple of decades...
