Mary Taylor - Navarra Maria Cruz Garcia 2022

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Our Navarra comes from an 80-hectare vineyard in Corella, in the heart of the Ribera Baja de Navarra at the foot of the Moncayo Mountains. The average age of these vineyards is 50 years. This cuvee is 100% Tempranillo, which is a grape more common in Rioja, but we love how it showcases the terroir here. There is no oak on this wine; it is fermented and aged in steel tanks as is not innoculated with outside yeasts. This is a family winery working exclusively with their own vineyards.

Our Navarra project is all about family and vines – handed down through the generations and a love story between Corella and San Sebastien – the past generation. I love to say that the people I work with are like living vines – many generations have lived in these soils. In present day, Maria Cruz Garcia and her husband Carlos Aliaga run the viticulture and vinification at this independent 80-hectare farm in the Ribera Baja (since 1999). There is a lot of pride here in working “the old way,” meaning low sulphites and indigenous yeasts.

Here we have a desert climate, the lowest rainfall in Spain and a wind called “Le Cierzo,” keeping the vines free of fungus and mildew. The biggest threat is that from the butterfly, for which they employ the highly eco-friendly technique of ‘sexual confusion’ (as in many of our wines). Ribera Baja, at the southern tip of Navarra, is a river plain, essentially the basin of the Ebro. We are between Aragon and La Rioja. Here there is more Tempranillo grown than Garnacha, which is more prevalent in the north.

 

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Producer	Mary Taylor
Country	Spain
Region	Navarra
Subregion	Ribera Baja
Varietal	Tempranillo
Vintage	2022
Sku	22203
Size	750ml