Mundo de Yuntero, Cooperativa Nuestro Padre Jesus del Perdon

Since the time of Miguel Cervantes’ story of Don Quixote and his servant Sancho Panza, life and viticulture have changed in LA MANCHA.

As far as viticulture and the quality of the wine are concerned, the changes in the past two decades were more radical than in some of the other wine-growing regions in Spain. You can see this quite clearly when you drive past the wine-growing areas and the villages. The vines are no longer isolated little gnomes in the middle of the countryside, they no longer grow rampantly and flatly on top of the soil; they are now in rows, attached to wire trellises, so that they can be cultivated more easily and more economically. This not only improves the wines from La Mancha, it also enables them to be sold at very reasonable prices.

The Cooperativa Nuestro Padre Jesus del Perdon, which consists of 700 wine-growers with a total of 3,600 hectares of wine-growing area, 100 hectares of which are farmed ecologically, is not one of the biggest, but certainly one of the most progressive in La Mancha. The vines grow in the best soil of the entire Manzanara region, above the Guadiana River, which runs underground but which comes to the surface now and then in the form of so-called Rudiera lagoons. This subterranean water supply creates ideal conditions for growing wine. The soil, which is rich in lime, is especially suited for growing the Tempranillo vine, which produces the best grapes.

Both the white and the red wines produced by Mundo de Yuntero are uncomplicated, the kind of wines you can drink every day, and which are also affordable.

Erich Hartl

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