Casa Castillo
Casa Castillo D.O.P. Jumilla, Spanien
Rebfläche: 175 Hektar
Böden: braune Kalkböden und kalkhaltige Böden, karge Gesteinsböden
Rebsorten: Monastrell, Garnacha und Syrah.
Ab 2017 findet der Ausbau aller Weine ausschließlich im Fuder statt.
Ab 2019 ist der Betrieb ökologisch zertifiziert.
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„Casa Castillo ist der führende Hersteller im Südosten Spaniens und ihr reiner, unveredelter Monastrell Pie Franco ist einer der größten Weine Spaniens. José Maria Vicente ist in der dritten Generation mit der Bodega verbunden und leitet heute das Weingut.“– Luis Gutiérrez für Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
"Casa Castillo is the name of a property in the outskirts of Jumilla, a classical Mediterranean estate with different cultivars (almonds, olives, pine trees...) and of course 174 hectares of low-density vines (167 in production) that could very well merit the estate its own appellation of origin. Production averages 315,000 to 330,000 bottles of very high quality wines that I consider the best in the region and among the best in Mediterranean Spain, producing world-class Monastrell, the main variety they grow. All their vineyards have been certified organic since 2019, and they are slowly moving their new plantings toward new plots with higher limestone content and leaving the valley floor, where there's more sand and silt.
2021 was also an exceptional vintage at Casa Castillo, quite similar to 2020. Winemaker and proprietor José María Vicente pays more and more attention to the last 15 days. In 2021, he got his biggest crop ever, over 400,000 kilos of grapes, which translated into 300,000 liters of wine (from 174 hectares, so 2,400 kilos per hectare, still low yields). He likes bigger crops, as it slows down the ripening, and the wines have easy fermentations and more freshness, with great purity and more precision but a lack of reductive aromas. There's a little more concentration here compared with 2020, a balanced and textured year; 2021 is a little more varietal, classical Jumilla and Casa Castillo, powerful and elegant. In cold years, he uses more full clusters, and in warm ones, he uses less; in 2021 he used a little less than in 2020, as the summer of 2021 was slightly warmer than in 2020. The 2022 and 2023 vintages are not as homogeneous and easygoing as 2020 or 2021; in 2022, they lost 70% of the crop, and 2023 was a nightmare of a harvest, with four heat waves and rain that halted the harvest, which was almost a completely different harvest when they resumed... The vines planted in the last seven years are getting settled, and they are still preparing to continue restructuring their vineyards, uprooting the vines from the valley floor and going for the slopes, being more focused about the place than the age of the vines. All their vineyards and wines are certified organic."
– Luis Gutiérrez für Robert Parker's Wine Advocate