Product
A deliciously fresh and dry Moscatel de Alejandria made from grpaes grown in the Mata Natrue Reserve on the coasst of Alicante.
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Michael Messum
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Casa Balaguer
Villena, Spain
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About
Since 2007 husband and wife team Andres Carull and Marta Ribera have been making low intervention wines out of a small warehouse in an old industrial estate in the town of Villena, Alicante. This humble start has since grown and developed into a fascinating range of natural, unspoilt wines made at the newly refurbished 18th Century Casa Balaguer.
The project today combines Mediterranean white wines from the stunning Parque Natural de la Mata, (Moscatel and Merserguera with a marked saline quality) and a range of more continental red wines from native varieties grown at over 650m above sea level (Monastrell, Alicante Bouschet, Rojal, Valensi, Garnacha Peluda to name a few).
Organically produced and biodynamically farmed the Casa Balaguer range offers the best of both side of Spain’s Levante region; Mediterranean freshness and continental intensity made with minimum intervention the utmost respect for nature.
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Casa Balaguer
Small family-run winery making organic and biodynamically produced wines from local grape varieties.
White wines from the sea, and red wines from the mountains, the project consists of two very contrasting estates in Alicante. Firstly, La Mata Natural park with pre-phylloxera vines (some over 150 years old) on sandy, salty soils where we predominantly grow Moscatel de Alejandría and Merseguera.
Secondly, fresh red wines from in-land Alicante where monastrell and other local grape varieties abound.
Everything is made organically and biodynamically.
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Product
Rich but fruity red wine from the Villena mountains made with 80% MONASTRELL, 10% GARNACHA and 10% SYRAH
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