Making history in one of the most prestigious wine magazines in the world, the Parker Guide, is the dream of many wineries. The Murcian Casa Castillo has achieved it once again, which has seen one of its wines obtain 99 points in one of the latest lists in the guide.
It is their Casa Castillo Pie Franco, the most emblematic wine of this winery attached to the DO Jumilla, which is made with Monastrell grapes from the Pago La Solana estate (an old vineyard of twelve hectares with sandy soil and a Mediterranean climate) and which in its 2021 vintage has conquered the Parker jury.
He also did it (and that is why we said at the beginning, "he has done it again") with his 2020 vintage, which reached 100 Parker points, becoming the only wine in the history of Jumilla to reach this maximum score.
The Casa Castillo Pie Franco comes from a single plot planted in 1941, as its name indicates, in ungrafted vineyard (a non-grafted vineyard system, so there is no rootstock or rootstock and variety but everything is the same plant, one same strain).
Experts say that it is a Mediterranean wine, floral, complex and fresh; as well as spicy. It is fermented in underground winepresses with natural yeasts and pressed vertically. It is then aged in new French oak barrels for 22 months. The tasting notes say of this wine, elegant and delicate, that in the mouth it is complex, fine, fresh and tasty, making it perfect to pair with sausages and red meats.
Of course, it is not affordable for everyone since its price is around 130-150 euros per bottle, depending on the distributor. Production is also quite limited since there are only about 8,000 bottles of the award-winning vintage on the market.
