Bodegas Robles, Fino ‘Piedra Luenga’ DO

The Robles family has been dedicated to making wines in Montilla since 1927. At the end of the nineties, the third generation took over in the winery and understood the need to incorporate organic viticulture and work with native yeasts into the tradition from the winery.

Founded by Antonio José Robles, and now run by Francisco, his grandson, Bodegas Robles produce a delicious range of sherry-style wines using the same ‘solera’ method used in Jerez.

All the wines, ranging from the elegant and bone dry Fino to the luscious nectar-like sweet PX are made using the Pedro Ximenez grape grown on the local white soil ‘Albarizo’.

Fino organic wine is aged for two years under a flower veil made from the yeasts grown in the vineyard. A layer of lavender, poppies and wild clovers covers the earth and feeds the Pedro Ximénez vines. The intriguing “solera” system mixes very old wines with younger wines, mothering the young wines.

Its high alcohol level is obtained naturally thanks to the high sugar content of the ‘PX’ grape, but this is a dry, slightly savoury sherry-like wine with a lengthy finish. Made using the traditional ‘solera and criadera’ barrel aging system.