Montepilas 2022 – Bodega Marenas

José Miguel Márquez Marenas Viñedo y Bodega is located in Cerro Encinas, in Montilla, province of Córdoba, geographic center of Andalusia. Spain of course. An area where the climate is Mediterranean, but with a great influence of the humid and saline air that comes from the Atlantic sea.
Only traditional systems are used for all wine making processes, always taking into consideration the natural environment; to make wines which are completely natural, without any types of additives and without sulfites addition at any stage of vinification.
All vines where planted by hand by José Miguel Márquez, exclusively, with a total of 5 hectares of vineyards, with slopes between 10% and 20%. Some of the most exciting wines are made using traditional grapes like Pedro Ximenez and recovering other indigenous varieties like Montepila and Monastrel
Any usage of any types of chemical treatment in the vineyards is strictly banned in all wine making processes. In addition Josè Miguel do not use neither organic matter of any kind, so as not to create any unbalance within the production of the vineyard. The land is not plowed and only native grass are cleared and incorporated into the soil. The pruning remains are also crushed and returned to the earth as organic matter.
The Result are amazing natural wines, oxidative, and expressive of their land and climate.