Finca Calvestra 2018

Mustiguillo’s Merseguera wines come from the 6ha of Finca Calvestra, at 900m. Top choice is the Margas bottling, named after the soil of this special plot: its 2016 vintage is a complex, saline wine with bright freshness, currently not easy to find. But savour the current vintage of Finca Calvestra itself: floral and fresh in style, with a delicate mineral edge. Organic.

2018 was a cooler vintage, and the grapes for the white 2018 Finca Calvestra ripened slowly. The wine achieved half a degree more alcohol than the 2017, a much warmer year and an earlier harvest with a hurried end of the ripening. The wine is more complete and has a little more of everything, especially freshness. It somehow felt more Burgundian, and the 2017 is more Mediterranean. All the barrels were used and acacia wood has subtler aromas, finer tannins and polish, and it stabilizes the wine nicely and is quite neutral when it comes to aromas. As with other wines, the 2018 follows more the style of 2016, and 2017 is more like 2015, keeping the character of the years. 11,950 bottles produced. It was bottled in September 2019. - Luis Gutiérrez.