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Grapes are hand-harvested and direct pressed into steel vat for primary fermentation and bottled before fermentation goes completely dry in the \u003cem\u003emétodo ancestral\u003c\/em\u003e style, without any fining, filtering or SO2, finishing secondary fermentation on fine lees for 9 months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wsite-content-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlfredo Maestro\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wsite-content-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Wine made with only grapes, well-kept vineyards, and healthy land.” This is the mantra of Castellano winegrower Alfredo Maestro, a bright light amongst an abyss of industrially farmed, over-ripe, over-oaked, and over-manipulated wine-scape that is the Ribera del Duero these days.   \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlfredo’s ascendance is unique to Alfredo.  His family came to the winemaking town Peñafiel, Ribera del Duero from the Basque Country.  Having grown up amongst the vines, Alfredo had a great interest in wine, and, through encouragement from friends, he started making his own wine in 1998.  That same year he planted his first vineyard on the Rio Duraton near his home.  From the beginning, he farmed organically.  In the cellar, Alfredo was working literally “by-the-book”, teaching himself enology from a book and using every trick in it to make a “correct” Ribera del Duero wine: yeasts, acid, enzymes, tannins, color-enhancers, etc. were just some of the techniques utilized.  In search of serious “purple-ness”, this is how many of the modern Ribera del Duero’s of today are produced.  In the early 2000s, Alfredo had a revelation.  He questioned why as an organic farmer use chemicals to make the finished wine; he wanted to work as naturally in the winery as he did in the vineyard, in his words - \"to better tell the story of the land.\" Alfredo began eliminating exogenous products, and in 2003 he began making wine without any additives whatsoever, including sulfur for all but a few wines.  Alfredo still has a bottle of ‘Castrillo de Duero’ from that initial experimental vintage, and the wine is delicious, developing beautifully, deep, tarry, and tobacco – a great sign of things to come. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOver the past few years, Alfredo has been seeking out neglected parcels around the Ribera del Duero and the nearby Madrid to make wine from.  He looks for old vines, poor limestone or granitic soils, and the requisite high elevation that gives freshness to wines grown on Spain’s great Meseta Central.  Alfredo has accumulated 9 hectares and two small bodegas, one located in his native Peñafiel in the Ribera del Duero, where his father helps with the bodega work, and the other in the Navalcarnero area, southwest of Madrid.  Alfredo makes no less than 11 cuvées from single vineyards and most notably from very rare old-vine parcels of Garnacha, Garnacha Tintorera, and Albillo located in the Ribera del Duero; these are grapes that were once embraced in the region but have fallen out of favor due to the region’s fascination with producing a 100% Tinto Fino wine. This prevailing mentality and fascination with spoof have worked to Alfredo’s benefit. 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This cuvee is made from fruit sourced from various plots of Tinto Fino (Tempranillo), of varying vine ages located, in Valtiendas at 1,000 meters elevation, as well as Peñafiel, at 700 meters. 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They were trained in albarello (goblet), the traditional back-breaking low-growing system used on the islands of Italy, and were very diverse with over 30 different grapes, but mainly Cannonau (Grenache).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"viewMoreModule_text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSince he was already an expert at fermentation with bread, Gianfranco believed the natural progression would be to understand wine fermentation with the help of these vines. He set about rehabilitating the old vines and planted a parcel of new vines of Monica and Carignano del Sulcis, the local strain of the famous grape, Carignan. He started making wine in the mid 80’s, but it wasn’t until 2005 that he was ready to put a label on it and offer his interpretation to the rest of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"viewMoreModule_text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOf course, no use of herbicides or pesticides is tolerated at Panevino. The vinifications are carried out on the natural yeasts of the vines and cellar culture. The wines are aged in 12 months in barrique of at least 3 years. The wines are bottled without fining or filtration. 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Fruity, nice acidity, tiny bubbles...true glou glou!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDomaine des Grottes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRomain des Grottes is yet another treasure discovered in the lower plains of Beaujolais (south of Brouilly) quietly turning his appellation on its ear with dedicated farming and a winemaking philosophy geared to one thing in mind – drinkability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"profile-paragraphs\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLocated in the village of St Etienne des Ouillieres, south of Brouilly, Romain is a young winemaker, the vineyards cover about 8 hectares that have been fully certified by Demeter since 2007. Of his 8 hectares his total vine count amounts to 4, choosing to uproot every second or third vine to make room for permanent grass or cereal and thus encourage competition at an alarming low yield rate. 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