Bodegas Hispano + Suizas

– Utiel Requena

The ‘Spanish and Swiss’ refers to the team behind this project – Marc Grin,Pablo Ossorio and Rafael Navarro. You’d be excused for thinking the Spanish and Swiss don’t get together too often for creative projects, luckily this pair of wines is a delightful proposition.

The region of Utiel Requena and the grape variety Bobal are made for each other. The DO, situated in the province of Valencia endures a pretty severe climate, frost and hail are frequent in the spring and fierce sunshine and drought conditions are almost a given in the long summer growing season. Bobal is a hardy and compact sort, a bit of a bumpkin, it can adapt well to its environment. It’s hard exterior needs to be broken down with a bit of ‘therapy’ in the winery and that’s where some excellent winemaking comes in to polish and buff in all the right places.