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Extinto<\/strong> is a wine from the variety ‘pan y carne’, very rare and too special to forget.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I met Jorge Vega of Puerta del Viento<\/em> in his home and bodega in the small settlement of Arborbuena outside Cacabelos in Bierzo. Here he has a small bodega that covers more or less everything in a single room. Well, I said Bierzo. Jorge is a maker of natural wines and doesn’t put much effort in thinking about the other producers or the regulations of the wine authorities. Rather he has his network of fellow artisans and his true customers. And he is an acknowledged expert, and many producers turn to him when in doubt. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Jorge is from Cacabelos, one of the main towns of Bierzo, where the consejo regulador<\/em> is located. It was his mother-in-law who came from Arborbuena, and the reason that the winery is located exactly here. Jorge disposes of an estate of 15 hectares in the settlements of Canedo and Pieros, not far from the winery, and there is a total of 3,5 hectares of vineyards. Jorge never clarifies nor filters, and never adds sulphites. The fermentations are done in big old chestnut barrels, and his tinajas are from Juan Padilla in Villarrobledo (Castilla-La Mancha). <\/p>\n\n\n

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Outside the temperature was below zero, and the bodega was not much better. Still we tasted around ten samples of wines, all from the 2022 harvest. Among the wines that stood out was an appley and cidery godello with do\u00f1a blanca, also with a hint of honey. In the mouth it showed high glycerine and also high acidity, thus showing a perfect balance. This wine comes under the name Bajo Velo<\/strong>, that means “under ‘flor'”. To name it do\u00f1a blanca is however unjust to Jorge. He calls the variety valenciana, as this is the name the locals use. JaJa<\/strong> is a valenciana with 30 days of skin-contact. It’s has some orange peel character, complemented by flowers and a strong mineral component, and with some tannin in the mouth. YeYa<\/strong> is a clarete made from 7 varieties, including pan y carne. It was wonderfully fresh, with red berries (raspberry, strawberry) with flowers, fizzy on the tongue with a light structure and an “electric” acidity. It had a bit residual sugar, that contributes well to the balance. Puerta del Viento<\/strong> is a red menc\u00eda, with good colour, somewhat blueish, blackberry and violets perfume, a light structure and fresh acidity. And Puerta del Viento Vi\u00f1as VIejas<\/strong> is an old vines version of the same, with darker fruit (blackcurrant), ink, with young tannins, but still very luscious and drinkable. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Then came the wine in the introduction. Extinto<\/strong>. The wordplay is perfect to denote this tinto<\/em>, from a nearly extinct variety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pan y carne, or estaladi\u00f1a, is one of the new varieties recognized by the DO Bierzo in their new regulations. The consejo regulador tells that it is less than 2 ha. in total of the grape. This includes the 600 plants that Jorge grafted in Canedo vineyard some years ago. Prior to this he had done a great job to verifiy genetically that it actually was the variety in question, described by the acknowledged agromomist Nicol\u00e1s Garc\u00eda de los Salmones more than a hundred years ago. (A note on the side: I have in fact tasted an estaladi\u00f1a before. But as Jorge points out, it is very likely to be another grape, a synonyme of merenzao, and not pan y carne.) <\/p>\n\n\n

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In my room at the parador of Villafranca I had Jorge Vega’s wine, with artisan bread and piquillo peppers made by his neighbour. My sample bottle was without label.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Extinto 2021<\/strong> (Puerta del Viento)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dark, blackish with violet hints. Concentrated aroma, young, blackcurrant, violets, ink. In the mouth it is vivid, has some structure (tannins and acidity), though nothing aggressive, hint of coffee-sweets, and a long and fruity finish.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Extinto is a wine from the variety ‘pan y carne’, very rare and too special to forget. I met Jorge Vega of Puerta del Viento…<\/p>\n