2020 was a precocious vintage in terms of the growing cycle and phenology: early bud burst, early flowering, early fruit set and veraison. Spring was accompanied by twice the average rainfall. The beautiful side of 2020 was our total confinement to the vineyards where we got to know our parcels more intimately. Harvest started for us on the 8th of September and we finished with the Mataquemada parcel on the 3rd of October, 2 weeks earlier than the average in the last 20 years. The wines are characterised by great energy and extremely forward fruit. A great antidote to the events of the year.

The grapes were harvested into 20kg stored between 0 and 1 degrees in a cool room with controlled humidity. Fermented in an open top fermenter with 40% of whole bunches included in a layer cake fashion. Gentle punching down was applied once or twice a only during a long, slow, soft fermentation after the grapes warm up from their cold soak. Afterwards we carried out a long maceration and malolactic fermentation took place on skins. After pressing the wine remained in two flex tank eggs for 11 months before bottling with minimal fining and filtration.

Torrijo de la Cañada was once a village that produced 3 million kg of grapes. Due to the remote nature of the village, almost all of the hillside vineyards have been lost to grubbing up in the last 70 years. The Mataquemada vineyard is situated on a base of decomposed schist/slate closer to the border with Castilla Leon than to Calatayud. It is one of only four remaining Garnacha vineyards in the municipality