South-east of Villarrobledo towards El Provencio (in the heart of the up-and-coming LA MANCHA region -the land of Don Quixote- Spain) is the beautiful 800-ha (1,977-acre) finca of PAGO DE LA JARABA, a single vineyard estate with a very well-equipped winery. An enthusiastic project that is coming true year-on-year, giving prestige to its Single Vineyard Estate Bottled wines, nowadays under La Mancha D.O./A.O.C.

PAGO DE LA JARABA has 80 ha (198 acres) of Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Graciano, planted on pebbled, gravelly, alluvial soil on a gently sloping plain situated at 750m above sea level. The vines are trained on wires with drip irrigation. We use only organic fertilizer from our own sheep (sheep manure produced on the same land of our "Finca" to improve the structure and texture of the terrain), practice careful vine canopy management and perform green harvesting, or cutting inferior green grape bunches from overloaded vines to promote better quality in the grapes that are actually harvested. We seek for the combination of the practices of the traditional viticulture with the most up-to-date wine-making technology. We go against any kind of aggressive processing.

We use a grape selection table to eliminate bad bunches and have sophisticated computer-controlled devices that control the movement by gravity of the grapes, must and wines through the winery. As well as Stainless steel tanks and Cement, epoxy-lined tanks, we also have wooden Radoux upright, 5,000-10,000-liter capacity wooden vats for doing some fermentation processes and holding operations. Finally, our wines are aged and gained more complexity in 225-liter capacity wooden barrels (French and American oak barrels). We advocate spontaneous clarification and natural filtration processes.

LA JARABA strives for grapes that are a little bit beyond the point of ripeness without losing balance (alcohol-acidity-body), assures that we always have ripe tannins. We want the wines to be balanced, sweet and very drinkable. Our wines are mainly elaborated from selected grapes of Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, assembled every year in the necessary and different percentage that allow us to achieve the desirable wine –depending on the previous tasting and selection before the assemblage of varieties-. However the main variety is usually the indigenous "Tempranillo", result of our deep knowledge of the vineyard and the indigenous varieties.

We seek for a sustainable agriculture in our land. In Finca -estate- of PAGO DE LA JARABA we have a selection of species and varieties that are well suited to the site and to conditions on the soil, having a diversification of crops (mainly Cereal -wheat, barley-, Sunflower…) and some hectares of scrubland. Also in our land, sheep flock is managed to enhance and protect soil quality. LA JARABA is a very traditional farming, and their involved people are from the vicinity of the estate, looking for efficient and humane use of inputs.

LA JARABA: There is evidence that by middle of the XVIII Century, the wines from this terrain of extraordinary history were being made and were well known throughout the region.

By the dawn of the XXI Century this new project ‘PAGO DE LA JARABA’ was established with a clear objective, to magnify the quality of La Jaraba wines (wines born from the concept of Vino de PAGO –CLOS–DOMAINE–ESTATE BOTTLED).

Pago de la Jaraba Azagador Reserva Tinto

Pago de la Jaraba Azagador Reserva Tinto