Secastilla

Within this valley, the most remarkable pagos are Guardia and Purruego. The soils that we can find in them are regosol in Guardia; colluvium in Purruego and blended clays, marls and even red plasters in Almunias.

Despite not being an excessively large area, the soil is composed of all sorts of different materials. In Guardia, the soil is made up of conglomerates in the peak or higher zone, and is deep, very stony and well-drained. In Purruego there is an accumulation of coarse elements brought down from higher places, in this case the original Pyrenees, with intermediate elements accumulating subsequently as they lost speed as the incline decreased. In Guardia, the soil comes from a valley bottom that a fast-flowing river ran into, depositing fine elements that later, during an upheaval and folding of the earth, were subjected to pressure and pushed upwards to form a diaper.

These soils date back to the Holocene and Keuper periods and lie at altitudes ranging from 600 to 750m above sea level.

To maintain a high level of quality, we opted for traditional, organic viticultural methods that use no chemical products such as fertilizers, herbicides or insecticides. The area’s indigenous grape varieties – Garnacha, Moristel, Parraleta and Garnacha Blanca – occupy most of this unique vineyard, which is also planted with some Syrah given the site offers excellent conditions for its growing it.

The peculiarities of this valley, the use of native varieties and the specific way in which they are vinified have facilitated he production of wines that are very different from the rest of the wines produced in the Somontano.