2023 Bodegas Cinco Léguas Vinos de Madrid La Maldición Tinto Fino

Organic. A terrific new addition to Marc Isart’s Cinco Leguas label (nee La Maldición). This wine sees Isart working with the old Tinta de Madrid clone of Tempranillo. The old vines are rooted in calcareous loam (with lots of red clay on the surface) of the Madrid mountain villages of Colmenar de Oreja and Chinchón, and includes a parcel of fruit from the brilliant El Socorro vineyard. In a region where many reds are made for impact, the wines of Cinco Léguas offer a refreshing distraction. “My goal is to produce grower wines,” explains Isart. “Wines that are more savoury than sweet. Wines where it is hard to stop drinking…” Entirely destemmed and aged in used 500-lire oak barrels, this a deeper and more mouth-filling expression of high-country Madrid than this producers ‘Tinto Fino’ bottling.