Bodegas Cinco Leguas La Maldición Vinos de Madrid Rompecepas Tinto Fino 2019 (6 Bottles) Madrid

by Fine Wine Cellars

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The Tinto Fino is a co-fermented blend of red and white varieties, as was once traditional in the region. His Malvar de Valdilecha white features whole-cluster fermentation followed by extended skin maceration and aging in large-format used oak.

In a region where many wines are made just for impact, the wines of La Maldición offer a refreshing distraction. “My goal is to produce grower wines,”, explains Isart. “Wines that are more savoury than sweet. Wines where it is hard to stop drinking…”

Isart’s old, low-yielding bush vines lie around the small village of Valdilecha, on an estate Isart has named Maldición, or ‘the curse’. Unsurprisingly the wines are very different from those Isart crafts at Bernabeleva in the Sierra de Gredos. But, applied here, Isart’s organic viticulture, pick-on-freshness, natural yeasts and the lo-fi regime still result in wines that are as juicy and fresh as they are delicious. Although, they are certainly more straight-shooting and thirst-quenching in style (a reality reflected in their pricing).

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About Bodegas Cinco Leguas La Maldicion

When he’s not weaving his magic at Bernabeleva, Marc Isart—with his wife Carmen Pérez— tends to his small family estate, 120 kilometres away in the hills above Madrid at Arganda del Rey. We’re still in Vinos de Madrid country, with the high-altitude vineyards situated within the granitic mountain chain that borders Madrid. Despite sharing a DO, however, the often distant subzones scattered throughout these mountains can be very different.

In Arganda del Rey, the granitic sands of the San Martín subzone (where Bernabeleva is based) give way to clay and limestone topsoils. With this change in soils, the varietals are typically different as well. At Bernabeleva, Isart works with old-vine Garnacha and Albillo, while at La Maldición, it’s old-vine Tempranillo for the red and Malvar, a local indigenous white variety, for the white.

 

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