2020 Alejandro Fernandez El Vinculo Crianza

The El Vinculo Crianza is a 100% pure Tempranillo. The EL Vinculo comes from organic vineyards from which only 20 hectoliters per hectare are harvested. The wine has been aged for 18 months in American and French new oak and is then bottle-aged for at least 6 months. In the glass the Vinculo is dark purple. In the nose we smell ripe fruit (cherry and strawberry), wood, minerals, vanilla. The palate is modern in style with smooth, clean black cherry, wild strawberry, vanilla and orange peel. It is very stylish and silky smooth to the finish. A very nice wine with an excellent price/quality ratio. The wine is perfect to drink now and has a drinking window until 2025+

One of the many dreams of Alejandro Fernández (Pesquera, Condado de Haza, Dehesa La Granja), has also become reality. This leading wine genius wanted to produce a great wine in La Mancha. During one of his trips he discovered good, old tempranillo vines that had adapted perfectly to the local climatic conditions. If properly cared for, the tempranillo (cencibel) gives excellent results in La Mancha. A beautiful, typical building from La Mancha, near the windmills of Campo de Criptana and next to a railway station, has been transformed into a modern winery. From the start, Alejandro Fernández's goal was to produce limited quantities of top quality wine. The name 'El Vínculo' pays tribute to the old family winery in the Duero wine region. The climate in La Mancha is extremely continental with freezing winters (-15°C) and sweltering summers (+45°C). The direct exposure to the sun's rays is enormous: no less than 3,000 hours of sunshine per year! The mountains surrounding the entire region block most of the precipitation. No more than 300-400 mm falls here annually, and long periods of drought are a plague for normal viticulture. Applying carefully dosed drip irrigation is therefore necessary to harvest top quality grapes here.