Winery:  Bodegas Juan Gil                             

Region:  D.O. Jumilla

Vintage: 2020                                             

Bottle:  75cl                                                    

Grape Varieties: 60% Monastrell, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Syrah.

Type:  Red Wine, oak aged

Alcohol Volume:  15.50%

Serving Temperature:  16º - 18º

Production: Made mostly from  Monastrell grapes sourced from old vines with very low yields. Aged for 18 months in new French and American oak Barrels.

Tasting Notes:  Attractive and intense aromas of ripe black fruit, toasty and smoky nose. A very modern, nicely matured  with some very ripe almost creamy black fruits and some spicy flavours. Well integrated oak and ripe sweet tannins on the finish.

Notes: It shows a great potential for aging. Drinks very well now and over the next 10 - 12 years. Matching perfectly with rice, all sort of red & white meats, grilled, stewed, or roast, poultry, smoked seafood, blue and cured cheeses, casserole dishes.

WINERY

Bodegas Juan Gil is a family owned winery, that dates back to 1916, it was  the third generation, who managed to consolidate the winery with a reliable, efficient and good quality wines image that the present generation are trying to maintain and improve as much as possible. The vineyards are located northwest of Jumilla, it consist of 350 Hectares own owned of which 120 hectares surround the winery and the rest are scattered in small parcels, always within the area called “Termino de Arriba” a perfect zone for wine growing, at an altitude between 700 – 850 meters above sea level and on sandy, chalky, rocky soil on the surface and very poor in nutrients. Monastrell is the main variety grown, native to Jumilla and perfectly adapted to the climatic conditions in this area, which it is used in all the wines produced in the cellar.