BODEGAS PIQUERAS VS OLD VINES 2018

Gold Medal – Sakura Japan
Gold Medal – China Wine & Spirits Awards

Bodegas Piqueras was founded in 1915 by Mario Bonete, one of the driving forces behind the creation of Almansa DO. in south-east Spain (100 kilometres inland from Valencia.) Today, Mario's sons look after the estate, with the goal of producing eminent wines at fantastic prices. A selection of the winery’s best vineyards from the region’s best native grape varieties.

Winery notes (2018 Vintage)
" A selection of the winery’s best vineyards. At an altitude of 850 metres above sea level, with hundred-year-old unirrigated vines, organic farming methods, poor, sandy and limestone soils. Deep crimson colour. Aromas of very ripe black fruits with complex hints of coffee, sultanas and plums, surrounded by subtle and deep spicy touches of vanilla, cinnamon, clove, coconut and light hints of nuts and almonds. Very full-bodied in the mouth with powerful and persistent tannins that are at the same time elegant, highly integrated with the new wood that surrounds the wine, with a very long passage through the mouth together with a silky and deep finish where the wood appears well marked from beginning to end and the taste of long ageing clearly differentiated with the touches of ripe plum of the Garnacha Tintorera and together with the conjunction of the Mediterranean flavours of the Monastrell."