When Tommaso Ciampoli of Fantini Wines went to the region of Castilla La Mancha on a business trip, he was dazzled by a parcel of 25 hectares of century-old vines to the southwest of Valencia. They rested on a plateau ranging from 700 to 900 meters above sea level in Albacete, where the climate and soils are dry and the temperatures reach wide extremes—not just between seasons but throughout each day. The gnarled old bush vines produce very small yields of flavour-packed grapes, which are a variety of indigenous and introduced varieties, from Tempranillo and Verdejo through to Syrah and Sauvignon Blanc.

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