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Luis XIV Lo de Pepitin 2024

Luis XIV Lo de Pepitin 2024

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Winery: Fondillon Luis XIV

Luis XIV Lo de Pepitin is made from 80% Monastrell,14% Giro, 3% Arcos and 3% Bobal.

"Wine from a historic plot, named after Mr. Pepitin, the farmer who looked after these vines throughout his life."

Old vines (1980) planted in a bush style and dry land. 610 metres above sea level in the town of Biar. Sandy clay loam soil, with a high presence of limestone. Historic plot, reproduced by massal selection and with a wide variety of old clones of traditional Alicante varieties.

Production: Indigenous yeasts in our 19th century winery.
Fermentation: 50% in stainless steel, and 50% fermentation in vats.
70% Grapes crushed by foot and destemmed manually.
30% whole bunches.
Low extraction.
Aging : 50% of the wine was aged for 8 months in 500-liter French oak barrels ; and the other 50% were aged for 8 months in century-old 500-litre Amphora from Villarrobledo, considered the finest in Spain and which allows the wine to be stored inside without any coating: just pure clay.

Review:

The single-vineyard red 2024 Lo de Pepitín is clean, harmonious, young, floral and very attractive. It comes from vines planted in 1980, a blend of 78% Monastrell, 18% Giró and 4% Bobal co-planted on 1.6 hectares of red limestone soils at 615 meters above sea level. It fermented with a sandwich of 15% full clusters that were foot trodden, destemmed grapes and another 15% full clusters on top, in a 2,000-liter stainless steel vat and four Padilla tinajas with indigenous yeasts and a soft extraction. It matured in equal parts in 500-liter oak foudres and a 1,600-liter tinaja for eight months. It has an elegant profile closer to a Garnacha (Giró) than a Monastrell. It's fine-boned, medium-bodied and has very fine and elegant tannins, with contained ripeness and 13.45% alcohol, keeping the poise, freshness and balance with a pH of 3.45. 2,500 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2025.

Country: Spain
Region: Alicante
Winery: Fondillon Luis XIV
Grape Type: Mourvedre
Vintage: 2024
Bottle Size: 750ml
Organic: No

Fondillon Luis XIV is made by Colección de Toneles Centenarios.

Colección de Toneles Centenarios is a newly created winery (2019), based on an interesting find: the barrel room of the Ferrero winery, an old winery that produced Fondillón wine, located in the town of Cañada (Alto Vinalopó), Alicante. Twenty-five old casks were forgotten there for over 60 years. They are launching some extremely old and also extremely expensive wines. The family still has 25 hectares of vineyards, from which they have resumed producing wines destined to produce Fondillón from 2017. This is a joint venture with Vins del Comtat. No known US importer.

Fondillón is a rare and very prestigious wine. There are only 10 certified wineries and there are no cheap Fondillón.

The hectares of production are not determined, but they can only be the oldest vines, bush vines of the monastrell variety of the Alicante DOP. This DOP (one of the eldest in Spain) has 15,000 hectares of vineyards. Producers must inform the DOP before harvesting which vineyards we will allocate to Fondillón, and it is only done over the years with harvests with probable natural alcohol greater than 16% (not very common). It is exclusive from Alicante DOP.

There are only two types, "Vintage" and "Solera". Our wines are "Aged more than 25 years solera" and "aged more than 50 years solera".

Fondillón is 100% Mourvèdre. Is has a high natural acidity at 16% (like the acidity of a Madeira). Brown in color. Aromas of Sherry and Madeira, with late harvest characteristics. Flavors of plums, raisins, and Christmas. Incredible 3-minute flavor finish.

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