Campo de La Guardia

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The municipality of La Guardia is situated in the northeast of the province of Toledo, on a vast elevated plain known as the Mesa de Ocaña, a plateau hanging more than one hundred metres above the Tajo valley.
• The Mesa de Ocaña ends abruptly at the La Guardia escarpment to the south, leaving on either side the valleys and ravines carved by the Algodor river to the west and the Cedrón river to the east.
• The soil has an alkaline pH, is calcareous, highly saline, and very poor in nutrients, with low concentrations of assimilable nitrogen and high potassium levels.
• Relative humidity is low, averaging 15% throughout the entire vegetative period of the vine.
• The climate is continental, with warm, dry summers and cold, dry winters, and features a wide diurnal temperature range during the grape-ripening months of July through September.

• The vineyard is trained on trellises with double-cordon pruning, maintaining continuous canopy and spacing between spurs to promote vine ventilation. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Irrigation is determined according to rainfall between flowering and véraison, monitored through visual assessment of leaf condition and data from the vineyard weather station, and ranges between 600 and 1,500 m³/ha per growing season. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)

• The red wine is of medium-high colour depth, bright and dense, complex, full-bodied, powerful, with a long finish and a savoury character.

• The highly saline soils, elevated potassium levels, and low relative humidity intensify vine stress, producing smaller berries with a higher skin-to-pulp ratio and, consequently, a wine with greater concentration of aromas and polyphenols, body, structure, and high alcoholic strength.
• The wide diurnal temperature range during the ripening period from July to September allows for greater polyphenol synthesis during the night hours.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the specification (pliego de condiciones).

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Sources

• National pliego de condiciones (PDF)
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-ES-A0055
• Official trade body site — Bodegas Martúe — Pago Campo de la Guardia