2023 Bodegas Cerron La Servil

The 2023 Bodegas Cerrón "La Servil" is a Demeter-certified biodynamic Monastrell from a single vineyard — El Cenajo — planted in the 1950s on ungrafted vines at 960 meters in Fuente-Álamo, Jumilla, with no filtering or fining and sulfur only at bottling. Violets, cherries, blueberries, and wild herbs on the nose, with silky fine-grained tannins, chalky minerality, and a long, stony finish that one critic likened to Monastrell meeting Nebbiolo — structured and profound in a way that stops you mid-sip. This is the Cerdán family's premier cru — siblings Juanjo, Lucía, and Carlos farming the same land their great-grandparents worked since 1895, saying no to bulk wine when the whole town was saying yes, and quietly producing some of the most exciting wines in Spain — a story of family, stubbornness, and terroir that we find impossible to resist. Fun fact: when the Cerdán family requested organic certification in the 1990s, the local cooperative refused to handle their grapes separately — so they went alone, built their own winery, and proved every skeptic wrong. Pair with lamb, game, paella, or anything worthy of a serious bottle.