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    Sierra Salinas

    Monastrell ‘Mira Salinas’

    Spain, Alicante, D.O. Alicante

    Red

    Winery Overview

    Bodegas Sierra Salinas was originally founded in 2000 by a respected winemaking family from Yecla who fell in love with the high altitude terrain surrounding the town of Villena in Alicante. MGWines Group, formed by the Miñano Gomez family, purchased Bodega Sierra Salinas in 2013, including the 56 hectares (142 acres) of vineyards owned by the bodega. The family also purchased the winery, with its modern facility built in 2006 over three stories as a gravity flow facility. Since being acquired MGWines Group in 2013, the current management and winemaking team have dedicated the focus of the project on the vineyards, converting all of their land under vine to organic farming, which is in the process of becoming certified. Extraction has been reduced, so has the use of new oak during the winemaking process. The entire facility was designed in 2006 as a gravity flow winery, which allows the winemaking team to vinify an elegant and composed expression of Alicante Monastrell, with the lush fruit and power characteristic to the variety, but with less alcohol and more acidity than what is typically found in the area. This is due in large part to the location of Sierra Salinas' vineyards, as well, which are all located between 650M and 680M above sea level, the highest vineyards possible in Alicante. These altitudes are responsible for dramatic changes in temperature between day and night, resulting in more restrained and elegant aromatics, and higher acidity. Furthermore, the soils are poorer in the mountains, dominated by stone and broken limestone. Part of the Jorge Ordonez portfolio

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    Vineyard

    56 hectare of vineyards, farmed organically. (Expecting to be certified in 2020). Planted between 1968 and 1998. Extremely shallow soils characterized by a high proportion of rock composed almost entirely of limestone. The limestone mother rock lies about a meter below the surface.

    Terroir

    Extremely shallow rocky limestone soils that are less than one meter deep on the limestone mother rock

    Viticulture

    Dry farmed, organic farming that is in the process of being certified. Vines are spur pruned, hand harvested

    Vinification

    The bunches are sorted rigorously after harvest and mechanically are de-stemmed. After the spontaneous un-inoculated fermentation, the must is pressed in a vertical basket press to minimize extraction. Spontaneous fermentation in open-top stainless steel vats, which encourages natural oxygenation of the wine, which allows for more gentle extraction, given the fact that pumpovers for oxygenation are minimized. Twenty day maceration/primary fermentation. The malolactic is spontaneous and slow, allowed to continue until June if necessary.

    Aging

    Malolactic occurs in 225L & 500L French oak barriques and puncheons.

    Tasting Notes

    Inky ruby. Ripe dark berry and floral scents show very good clarity and are complemented by suggestions of vanilla, exotic spice and woodsmoke notes. Juicy and focused on the palate, offering appealingly sweet, mineral-laced cherry and black raspberry flavors that tighten up slowly with air. Shows impressive depth as well as liveliness and finishes long and seamless, with lingering floral and smoke notes. (aged for a year in new and used French oak barriques)

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