Producer: Bodegas Coruña del Conde

Producteur : Bodegas Coruña del Conde

Bodegas Coruña del Conde, in Castile, is a small family estate that produces, entirely naturally, traditional Bordeaux-style reds with a distinctly Iberian sap and maceration vintages created by Julien Ben Hamou López.

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I'm Natural Don't Panic
Bodegas Coruña del Conde

I'm Natural Don't Panic #8 Red 2018

€19,00

Alberto López Calvo - vino tinto (red) 2010
Bodegas Coruña del Conde

Alberto López Calvo - vino tinto (red) 2010

€39,00

Jeune Tradition Red 2018
Bodegas Coruña del Conde

Jeune Tradition Red 2018

€20,00

Alberto López Calvo - vino tinto (red) 2009
Bodegas Coruña del Conde

Alberto López Calvo - vino tinto (red) 2009

€39,00

Rosado Cosecha Rosadito Rosé 2019
Bodegas Coruña del Conde

Rosado Cosecha Rosadito Rosé 2019

€18,00

Tinto Cosecha BCDC Red 2018
Bodegas Coruña del Conde

Tinto Cosecha BCDC Red 2018

€21,50

Alberto Lopez Calvo Tinto Cosecha Red 1998
Bodegas Coruña del Conde

Alberto Lopez Calvo Tinto Cosecha Red 1998

€79,00

I'm Natural Don't Panic
Bodegas Coruña del Conde

I'm Natural Don't Panic #7 Red 2018

€19,00

Alberto López Calvo - vino tinto (red) 2011
Bodegas Coruña del Conde

Alberto López Calvo - vino tinto (red) 2011

€35,00

Magnum I'm Natural Don't Panic
Bodegas Coruña del Conde

Magnum I'm Natural Don't Panic #7 Red 2018

€53,00

Julien Ben Hamou López

Where?

In Castile, in the province of Burgos and in the Meseta—a mountainous and sparsely populated area in central Spain—lies the village of Coruña del Conde and a small family winery of the same name. It was founded in 1990 by Alberto López Calvo, who had returned to his native land after forty years in France devoted to Bordeaux wines and French cooperage (Demptos). Alberto realized his dream: creating his own winery. He began making his wines around the Tempranillo grape variety, supported by Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, memories of his Bordeaux experience. Two years later, the winery was built. All this continued until 2012, the year of Alberto's death. It was Julien, Alberto's grandson, who took over the estate. With care and dedication, he remained faithful to his grandfather's philosophy and style, perpetuating the tradition of his renowned red wines. He also created others, adding to an already organic approach the finesse of an integral natural method, notably skin maceration. Julien, his wife Angélica, and Luis, a cousin who officially joined them in this adventure in 2019, work on this property.

Terroir, plots, and grape varieties

The vines are located on the slopes of Alto Otero, at an altitude of over a thousand meters. The first vines were planted in 1970, the last in 1998, totaling three and a half hectares, divided into five plots. In addition, there are twenty-four other smaller plots of century-old goblet-pruned vines, also covering three and a half hectares, bringing the total vineyard area to seven hectares on clay-limestone soil. The continental climate is unique to the Meseta: harsh in winter, hot and dry in summer. The grape varieties are diverse, with Tempranillo dominating. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot follow, lending a Bordeaux note to Alberto's reds. A few white grape varieties share the remainder: Albillo Mayor, Chasselas, Grenache Blanc, and Sauvignon Blanc. These, along with Tempranillo, are found in the méthode nature cuvées created by Julien from the century-old vines.

Growing Methods

Traditional artisanal viticulture, practiced since the estate's founding by Alberto López Calvo, obtained organic certification in 2007. The vineyard is free of chemicals, pesticides, or herbicides, with only a small amount of copper and sulfur used in cases of extreme necessity. Green harvests are practiced to select the best bunches. The harvest is entirely manual.

Vinification

Just as the vines have been cultivated organically since the estate's founding, the winery is free of any synthetic additives or products. Whatever the vintage, the method is 100% natural, 100% grape-based, practiced with great passion and hard work. The harvest is almost always destemmed. For the Alberto López Calvo vintages, the vinification process is traditional: alcoholic fermentation in vats and malolactic fermentation in barrels over ten years old. Depending on the vintage, aging can last from two years to forty months in French oak barrels, and very long periods of rest (from two and a half to three years) may follow bottling. More recent vintages use a different method: skin maceration can last ten days (for the dry white), twenty to forty days (for the red), or up to one hundred and twenty days (for the orange), alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in vats, and rest in the bottle for two months to one year, depending on the vintage.

The Wines

The wines of Bodegas Coruña del Conde come in several distinct ranges: Alberto López Calvo, the estate's historic Bordeaux-style cuvées, are made with Tempranillo (75%), followed by Cabernet Sauvignon (20%) and Merlot (5%). These are beautiful, age-worthy wines with an intense garnet red color, elegant, complex, deep, and silky, with well-integrated tannins. I'm Natural, Don't Panic, the cuvée concept created by Julien, consists of macerated wines made from 100% Tempranillo for the reds and 100% Airén for the dry white, while the orange blends the estate's four white grape varieties in equal parts. Bodegas Coruña del Conde offers a much more festive range of young, crisp, and indulgent wines. One of the red vintages, Jeune Tradition, made from 100% macerated Tempranillo, is harvested from plots planted by Alberto: an updated version of his grandfather's work.

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