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Perfectly suited to the climate and growing conditions of Spain\u2019s high plateau, the Monastrell grape is revered by Jumilla\u2019s winemakers \u2013 and a new generation is pioneering the evolution of expressive modern styles<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elena Pacheco freely admits that a couple of decades ago, she and many of her young winemaking colleagues in Jumilla were tempted to replant their vineyards with fashionable French grape varieties. But those days are long gone. The 12m-long vine, suspended from the roof of her Vi\u00f1a Elena winery as an exhibit, is of course the native Monastrell, a grape variety that today covers almost three-quarters of the Jumilla vineyard.<\/p>\n

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Monastrell\u2019s long vine roots are one reason why Jumilla\u2019s growers revere it. They\u2019re able to delve down into the region\u2019s rocky, limestone soils to extract all the moisture the plant needs, even during Jumilla\u2019s long, baking summers. This is no recent discovery: generations ago, farmers here devoted what water they had to their olive groves and almond trees, knowing that their vines could manage without. This ancestral knowledge is perhaps why in Jumilla, one of the driest areas of Spain, most vineyards are still dry-farmed.<\/p>\n

Monastrell has a long drawn-out vine cycle. \u2018This has the great advantage,\u2019 says winemaker Val\u00e9rie Durand, \u2018of grapes ripening when the nights are cooler, thus preserving acidity and allowing complete phenolic ripeness.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Perfectly suited to the climate and growing conditions of Spain\u2019s high plateau, the Monastrell grape is revered by Jumilla\u2019s winemakers \u2013 and a new generation is pioneering the evolution of expressive modern styles Elena Pacheco freely admits that a couple of decades ago, she and many of her young winemaking colleagues in Jumilla were tempted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[51],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grape-varieties-terroir"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJumilla: Grapes and flavours - Jumilla Wines EN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jumilla.wine\/en\/blog\/jumilla-grapes-and-flavours\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jumilla: Grapes and flavours - 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