Bodega Recuero, Sin Copa Tinto 2020

Located in the Alcardete locality in Toledo, Spain bodega Recuero is a family with a long
lineage of viticulture and winemaking in this region (and beyond). Jesus Recuero is the owner and a talented, observant winemaker who champions rare, local varieties some of which are near-extinct, all growing on very old vines of 80-100 year + (quite a few are pre-phyloxera). Bodega Recuero, producing wine since 1873, is owned and run by Jesus Recuero who inherited the winery (bodega) from his ancestors along with a great passion for their vineyards in Villanueva De Alcardate, close to Toledo in Castilla La Mancha. Jesus, a trained agricultural engineer and oenologist, greatly cherish the knowledge and winemaking traditions that accumulated through the years and passed down to him by his father and grandfather. Guzqia, the vineyard in Alcardate, along with another vineyard in Extremadura contain age-old vines of endemic grape varieties; some of whom almost completely forgotten, such as Moravia, Airen del Pais, Verdoncho, Albillo Pardo, Pinuelo (a strain of Granache), Verdejo Serrena (Rufeta Blanca), Palomino and a few others.

GRAPE: 100% Tinta Fina