List of products by brand Carvajal Wines

Passion

Designing wines for others involves adjusting to certain parameters to a greater or lesser extent. Now, you have total freedom and your wines convince you 100%. In his new career as a “negotiator”, Jaime seeks to buy grapes or wines and then take charge of their production, “coupage”, aging, bottling, labeling and marketing. “I like things well made and made with love.I declare myself a lover of good food and good wine, like my father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather… I was a member of vinoselección when I was 20 years old, and at that time we were few.”

Cadiz land of wines

In a place like Cádiz, where the inimitable Sherry wines are created, achieving notoriety for the still wines welcomed The mention of Vino de la Tierra has not been a bed of roses. “Sherry wines have so much personality and are so different from everything else that they project a very long shadow. But the wine from the Land of Cádiz already has a life of its own: it is not associated with the generous wines of Jerez. People are becoming aware that the place of origin does not matter: if the wine is good, it is good. And very interesting wines with different price ranges are being made here, like in any other region.”

Higher production

After 25 years linked to a large winery in Jerez , he embarks on a new direction. “With the agreement I reached with Barbadillo, I won the lottery. This winery has spectacular facilities and viticultural heritage. In their aging warehouses they had Taransaud French oak barrels, no one in this area had that. I decided to propose to them that they let me select a wine from all their production and allow me to sell it. "They accepted." From this 'joint venture' Cobijado was born, which is released with the 2013 vintage and a production of 7,000 bottles.

Martian Wine

They continued with the following vintages, increasing production in each of them. Until in January 2018 the 50/50 alliance with Barbadillo ends. Jaime incorporates his children and reaches a new agreement. “I can choose what I want each vintage, what seems best to me. My 'coupages' change every year, but they always maintain the same level. I can select the best of Barbadillo's great production and create the assembly that I like the most. It is a dream come true. “I won the lottery,” he remarks. Thus we arrive at Cobijado 2016, the Marciano Wine of February 2019. A red wine resulting from an absolutely original blend.

Cadiz Wines

The Wines of the Land of Cádiz are normally warm and with a beautiful color, and in this part a Tintilla de Rota, a local and exclusive grape from Cádiz, plays a fundamental role. “Rota tintilla has a lot of acidity and a lot of color, but it is not very tannic. That is why it is very good for young wines, but not so good for aged wines due to its oxidative character. A good recipe for aged wines is to blend Rota tintilla with other varieties,” says Jaime de Carvajal. For this reason, in Cobijado the Rota tintilla appears as a complement to the tempranillo grapes (the protagonist of the blend), syrah and petit verdot.

“I am proud of the quality of the Tempranillo with which Cobijado is made. Growing this grape in Cádiz is not easy, due to the amount of rain we have, we run the risk of the berries becoming too fat and not having enough structure. To solve it, different measures are taken. First, grasses are planted between the rows; In this way, the grasses steal water from the vines. Second, the planting framework is narrower: 4,000 vines per hectare, thus causing the vines to have to compete for water. In addition, we do green pruning, we eliminate leaves to reduce the feeding of the plant and make the berries smaller; and before veraison, we thin out the bunches. All of this involves a fairly expensive process, but it is worth it to obtain a Tempranillo that provides a magnificent structure,” he points out.