Appellation: none. Cuvée: Nude. Colour: Red. Grapes: Garnacha. About: a new vineyard for Raul and Laura after they relinquished their interest in the Forcipula vineyard. It’s their first semi-carbonic maceration wine, with no barrel to add any makeup, thus Nude. A mere 650 bottles. Vines Location: Tietar Valley (Ávila) Size: 1,5 hectare(different small vines) Age: … Continue reading Raúl Calle Nude
Appellation: none. Cuvée: Naturi G. Colour: Red. Grapes: Garnacha. About: formerly part of Diabolesa, now Raul and Laura are making a Cuvée for each grape. So this is G after Garnacha but still from Tieta Valley. Vines Location: Tietar Valley (Ávila). Size: 1,5 hectare (differents small vines). Age: planted around 1950. Soils: granite sands and … Continue reading Raúl Calle Naturi G
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: Rinconada. Colour: Red. Grapes: Garnacha. About: One of four micro-production single vineyard plots of pure Garnacha made in 2017 aged in barrique, then aged 2 years in bottle before release, just 300b each. Vines Location: Rinconada is 20km from Fabio’s base in El Tiemblo. Size: a few plants. Age: planted … Continue reading Viños Ambiz Rinconada
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: El Burgillo. Colour: Red. Grapes: Garnacha. About: One of four micro-production single vineyard plots of pure Garnacha made in 2017 aged in barrique, then aged 2 years in bottle before release, just 300b each. Vines Location: El Burgillo vineyard is 5km from Fabio’s base in El Tiemblo. Size: a few … Continue reading Viños Ambiz Burgillo
Appellation: Vino de España. Cuvée: Rosado. Colour: Rosé. Grapes: Garnacha. About: New in 2019, a micro production of Rosé as real wine, with weight, texture, colour and plenty of spicy flavour. Just 500 bottles. Vines Location: El Tiemblo, Sierra de Gredos. Size ha: 1. Age: vines planted 1980. Soils: poor, chalky. Exposition: south. Altitude: 750m. … Continue reading Viños Ambiz Rosado
Appellation: none. Cuvée: Churumbi. Colour: pink. Grapes: Grenache Noir. About: the name means “child” in gypsy language so this wine is for their son Burno. It’s a gorgeous, complex rosado that fizzes with energy, fermented and aged in old American oak, only 600-1000 bottles, depending the year. Vines Location: Tietar Valley (Ávila). Size: 1 hectare. … Continue reading Raúl Calle Churumbi
Appellation: none. Cuvée: Diabolesa. Colour: Red. Grapes: Garnacha 60% and Tempranillo 40%. About: named after an insect shown on the label called an Empussa pennata that Laura found while working one day in the vineyard and representative of the rich insect life that can inhabit an organically farmed vineyard. It’s a rich, elegant and complex … Continue reading Raúl Calle Diabolesa
Appellation: none. Cuvée: Forcipula. Colour: Red. Grapes: Garnacha. About: named after the tool Raúl uses to measure the diameter of trees in his day job. This is a powerful and complex red from granite soils, made in open oak barrels and bottled early to capture the fruit freshness, only 500 bottles. Discontinued in 2019. Vines … Continue reading Raúl Calle Forcipula
Who: Raúl and Laura Calle. What: Vino de España. Where: Sierra de Gredos. When: Since 2013. The Story Raúl is a forest engineer and teacher by vocation based in the easternmost point of the Sierra de Gredos region, in Sotillo de la Adrada. Here he came into contact with different grape varieties in experimental vineyards … Continue reading Raúl Calle Viticultor
Appellation: Vi de Taula. Cuvée: Nas del Gegant Rosat. Colour: Pink. Grapes: Grenache Noir. About: the 2018 is the accidental but totally delicious pink, with a maceration of a few minutes before JR realised the tank was going to overflow and ran off enough juice to save it, this juice becoming the pink. Vines Location: … Continue reading Escoda Rosat
Who: Fabio Bartolomei. What: Vino de España, Sierra de Gredos. Where: El Tiemblo, Avila, Madrid. When: Since 2003. The Story Viños Ambiz is a very small producer of natural wines based just west of Madrid in the now rather fashionable region of Sierra de Gredos. It’s run by Fabio Bartolomei an Italian born and raised … Continue reading Viños Ambiz
