Rompecepas, Cinco Legua, Marc Isart, Miguel Santiago and Vinostito

Rompecepas Garnacha is a light red wine from old vines with a moderate 12.7% alcohol. It is fermented destemmed with a short maceration of five days in concrete and aged in 500-liter barrels and 700-liter tinajas for nine months. This is completely unique red wine; it is pale, aromatic, floral and light, a happy wine that is less tannic than the wines from San Martín tend to be. It's very pleasant and easy to drink, with a fine-boned palate, clean and balanced. Cinco Leguas is a new project from winemaker Marc Isart, Miguel Santiago and their Irish importers Vinos Tito. Located in Madrid, in the zone of Arganda, with 10 hectares of 50- to 59-year-old vines in the villages of Belmonte de Tajo, Colmenar de Oreja, Chinchón and Valdelaguna. Work in the vineyards is organic. They work with barrels, foudres and tinajas of different sizes. It's the follow-up of Isart's personal project, La Maldición. The idea is to go back to the wines from the 1990s, before the arrival of modern enology in the zone, keeping the tradition and the varieties and preserve the patrimony of old vines.