Wild Fermentation - Monica y Estrella Zas
We are mother and daughter who, motivated by Mariano Taberner, began in 2022 to make our first wine, Wild fermentation.
We are in La Portera, a small village in the district of Requena, with no more than 60 inhabitants.
Here the vineyards surround us, and they give us their fruits and colors.
We produce at Bodegas Cueva, there we have our warehouses and two small fields, one of bobal centenaria and the other of tempranillo.
The winery dates back to 1900 and has a lot of magic inside.
This year we also started making a white with Tardana grapes from a neighbor's field.
We do not use tractors other than a small one to carry the deposits with microorganisms to treat the vines. That is the only treatment that Lea does along with pruning.
Our winery is called “free wines for women” and that means it is for everyone, but made by women, in this case my daughter and me.
We believe that the union between women is very important to create, from freedom, that is why we gave that name to our small creative association.
For now we only have one wine on the market, it is wild fermentation, a carbonic maceration of bobal of which we made about 600 bottles.
It was a very laborious process since we had to disgorge each bottle twice, with the loss and work that this entails, yet we did it happily and with great enthusiasm to be able to share our first wine.
The pressing was manual pressing.
The labels are hand painted by @liqen, a Galician based in Guadalajara, Mexico.