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SPAIN<br />
– REGION –<br />
Pascual Tomás, winemaker (left) and Antonio José Bleda, owner (right) at Bodegas Bleda<br />
The winery owns 250 hectares of vineyards, 80% planted to<br />
Monastrell with most of the vines farmed organically. As the<br />
winery says, “the variety is the one best suited to the environment<br />
in Jumilla, as it needs a warm climate to ripen. It copes with<br />
drought conditions very well and ripens equally well. The climate<br />
and the soils lend the grapes greater concentration of key elements,<br />
enabling us to produce powerful wines, with an intense colour,<br />
great structure and aromatic complexity”.<br />
All the wines are made primarily from the native Monastrell<br />
grape, either as single variety wines or blends with varieties such<br />
as Tempranillo, Syrah and Merlot. Among the wines, the soleracrafted<br />
Oro Viejo deserves a mention. It is still being made as it<br />
was at the turn of the 20 th century when Antonio Bleda succeeded<br />
in winning a gold medal for it at the 1929 Barcelona World<br />
Exhibition.<br />
The company “has always maintained a strong commitment<br />
to making high quality young and aged wines thanks to the<br />
extraordinary dedication of all the people who have been part of<br />
Bleda for four generations, both in the vineyard and at the winery”.<br />
70 SPRING 2021 GILBERT & GAILLARD - THE FRENCH EXPERTS ON WINE
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