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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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jumilla (pronounced who-ME-ah) is a small wine region located in southeastern Spain.\u00a0\u201cThe area begins in Tobarra mountains, a natural crossroad located between Alicante, Albacete, and Murcia, around 50 miles inland from the Mediterranean Sea. The vines stretch out across more than 19,000 hectares of land, and over 2,000 viticulturists painstakingly care for each and every one. There are 45 registered wineries in the provinces of Murcia and Albacete, of which 40% are located in the town of Jumilla.<\/em>\u201d This quote is taken from Jumilla.com<\/p>\n

Jumilla is the birthplace of Monastrell, a red grape variety (known as Mourv\u00e8dre in France).\u00a0\u00a0Jumilla also boasts being home to Europe\u2019s single largest collection of 90-year-old ungrafted bush vines.\u00a0\u00a0Viticulture and winemaking have been a fundamental part of Jumilla for over 5000 years, and it is one of the oldest DOPs (denominaci\u00f3n de origin Protegida) in Spain, established in 1966.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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