Our vineyards are less than 500 meters from the river, in soils sloping upward to the mountain, surrounded by pine trees, rosemary and thyme ... and as always on dry-farmed land with old vines cultivated in bush vines. We do not know the age of this vineyard, but the previous owner (an elderly man and his wife, both grandparents ...) told us it was his wedding gift.

These parcels have a chalky white calcareous soil, which indicates the high active limestone content that contributes the hint of saltiness a great wine likes so well, in addition to a particular freshness and floral character from these soils.

2.-The parcels are on slopes, which gives us a greater exposure to the sun for more complete maturation, and mitigates the dangers from spring frosts. Along this river bank the occurence of frost is always a concern for us at our terraced parcel, Sol, a little lower down the hill.

3.- The soil is not as white, chalky or saline, ... instead it has more clay, although still maintaining an important percentage of limestone that is not quite as pronounced as in the plots of Sol, which gives us that extra touch of structure that allows the wine to develop in the bottle over time.

These are old vineyards of Tardana grapes, about 70 years old, planted in bush vines and dry-farmed in a broad framework of plantings (1,100 vines / Ha). One of these vineyards belongs to José and had been abandoned for years. We are managing to revive it thanks to the development of the Terra wine.The other vineyard was cultivated by Victoria until recently, which we moved to a sharecropping arrangement to avoid starting over completely. The yields are minuscule—only 0.5-1.5 kg per-vine at best—but these vineyards give us great joy because the concentrated grapes we get here are perfect for fermenting on the skin to create our orange wine.

We work with old Bobal vines here, about 30-40 years old, grafted on Paulsen rootstock (American), something unusual for the area because it is less productive than the more extensively used 110 R, adding extra growth of the wood instead of more fruit weight. This attribute creates a perfect balance between the vegetation and the fruit used in making our reserve wine: Maximas.

Si hay un componente de nuestro suelo que resalta es la arcilla, y por esta razón, nació Tinaja . Es la máxima expresión de estos suelos: rojos, arcillosos y con un alto contenido en hierro.

This vineyard is planted to old Bobal, about 40-years-old, planted bush vine and dry-farmed according to the traditional practice, with low vine density at 1,200 vines / Ha.

The vines have a good vigor that helps shade the grapes during the hottest part of summer and maintain freshness, while also maintaining a production equilibrium that lets us work with grapes that have an excellent fruit intensity and a good balance of alcohol-to--acidity. The yields off this parcel come in at around 4,000 kg / ha..

This plot is worked by our beloved viticulturist Sergio Valiente, Ivan's partner at the high school. Sergio is reviving the vineyards of his great-grandfather, and used to be winemaker for the village of Serradiel. He works according to the guidelines we set for him with an excitement and passion similar to ours, and with a father's pride in the grapes are in every bottle of Rosé.

The people of the town and the experts of the area say that Alborea's Bobal wines have always been the best around here ... and we could not agree more.

Ferrous soils (red), deep and clayey, of the type that you dig and dig and you never find the base rock, where all the winter water is stored. During the summer months this characteristic allows the old vines to explore with their roots through the deep confines of clay, in search of that water so precious that will allow us to complete the cycle and have fresh grapes, with a moderate degree, ripeness and fruit, lots of fruit ... ideal forGot.

So this parcel is our only inheritance, and what a good inheritance it is! It's located in Alborea on the road to La Huerta de Villena, before one starts descending toward the river Cabriel, in the spot called Cerro de Los Moñigos, about 6 km outside the town. This vineyard is all about the prototypical soils of the area, clayey, red, deep ... and vines trained in bush, as they've always been, dry-farmed and very old (80 years or more).

A perfect place to elaborate what was to be our first Maximas wine and then later our first natural wine as well: Infintum, now called Soy. Because this parcel — the one we have spent the most years working on — is where the energy flows together between all of us, the soil, the grapes and the cosmos, to give us a pure wine. Through the genesis of this wine we began to integrate astrology, Bach flowers... all the visible and invisible forces of life that coexist together in perfect harmony..

The reason why they are being uprooted and are in danger of extinction, is that the current economic system, forces the farmer to necessarily produce many kilos of fruit for his vineyard to even get close to actual profitability. But with old vines the yields in terms of kilos per plant are not sufficient to cover costs. After also taking into account that the global marketplace is moving toward monovarietal wines, these plots are simply not sustainable anymore.

And yet they are plots of very old vineyards, and treasured reserve for the genetic varietal heritage of our region. For this reason, and in line with the mission of our winery, we want to do everything possible that allows them to continue to exist. At first we were able to rescue the Pintailla variety, from which our wine of Atlantic character was born, and nowadays our "crowdfunding" wine ¿y tú de quién eres?is sourced from these vineyard parcels.