Panduro Vinos Panduro Red Monastrell 2022 750ml

SPAIN : MURCIA : JUMILLA

ORGANIC : Monastrell (95%), local varieties (5%)

FULL-BODIED, DARK CHERRY, DRIED HERB, IRON MINERAL, CRACKED PEPPER, NEUTRAL OAK

Panduro is the Jumilla flagship from Ibon Apezteguia's nomadic winemaking project — sixty-year-old Monastrell from a four-hectare plot in the Valle Hoya de Torres, farmed organically and vinified with zero additions. Majority destemmed fruit with a portion of whole bunches, sixteen days of skin contact, spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, six months in neutral 500-liter French oak. No fining, no filtration, no sulfur.

Jumilla carries a reputation for overripe extraction. This is 13% ABV from old limestone-grown vines — the kind of wine the region's defenders have been making the case for. Dense but fresh, with the tannic grip that invites food rather than overwhelms it.

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