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Today’s winemakers are pulling back on extraction and oak, aiming for wines that still have that signature intensity, but with more lift, freshness, and drinkability.  Add a renewed focus on crafting quality blancos and the result is a wine region in transition, still deeply Mediterranean, sun-drenched and generous, but increasingly defined by precision, energy, and a new sense of lightness within its natural power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"casa-castillo-las-gravas-2021-jumilla","title":"Casa Castillo Las Gravas 2021, Jumilla","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSierra de Molar · since 1941 · planted in 2006\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJose María Vicente’s grand opus to the terroir of Las Gravas.  Broad and robust, full of tension and vitality, stony and herbal with uncanny depth.  Velvet ecstasy floating on Mediterranean breezes.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eD.O. 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