Bodegas Cinco Léguas Vinos de Madrid Malvar de Valdilecha 2022 (6 Bottles) Rioja, Spain

by Fine Wine Cellars

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Now simply labelled Tinto Fino (the wine was previously called Tinto de Valdilecha), this is a blend of 80% mature-vine Tempranillo (from Valdilecha at 780 metres) with the local white grape Malvar (from Belmonte at a similar altitude) making up the balance. The vines are all biodynamically reared and the grapes hand-harvested.

Both varieties were co-fermented with natural yeasts, then the wine spent 20-25 days on skins and was aged in cement and stainless-steel tanks.

Organic. Sometimes it’s good to let the winegrower do the talking. Here’s Marc Isart: “So many wines are made just for impact, but you can only drink one glass of them. My goal is to produce grower wines. Wines that can be drunk daily. 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, and his estate is named after the historic nickname of the area—La Maldición: ‘the curse’. It was called this by the locals as it was so difficult to eke out a living from such isolated, high-altitude rocky soils.

Applied here, Isart’s organic viticulture, pick-on-freshness, natural yeast, lo-fi regime results in wines that are as juicy and fresh as they are delicious, yet they are certainly more straight-shooting and thirst quenching in style than the Bernabeleva wines; a reality that is 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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