Mil Cepas, La Mancha

In 2012 Manuel Manzaneque Suarez his own winery with his wife Paloma, focused on producing high quality wines based on the indigenous Cencibel grape of La Mancha. 2014 was the first time winemaker Manuel Manzaneque chose to bottle a single plot as a unique wine. This wine, Mil Cepas, literally One Thousand Vines, is that wine. The unique sandy soils of this vineyard lead to slower ripening and additional complexity in the finished wines. Approximately 3,000 bottles were produced in this inaugural vintage.

Winery: Manuel Manzaneque Suarez
Appellation: La Mancha
Average age of vines: 40 years old
Farming Methods: Practicing Organic
Maturation: Aged for 14 months in French oak barrels, second fill
Soil: Unusually sandy with limestone subsoil
Varietal: 100% Cencibel (Tempranillo)
Vineyard Orientation: 800 meters
Vineyard Size: N/A

Wine	Scores	Downloads	Reviews
Mil Cepas, La Mancha 2017	93 Vinous Saturated ruby. An expressive, smoke-accented bouquet evokes ripe red and blue fruits, incense and smoky minerals, plus baking spice and licorice undertones. Sweet, spicy and lively on the palate, offering powerful blueberry and cherry liqueur flavors that are energized by a peppery quality. Smoothly combines richness and energy and finishes with sharp focus, lingering sweetness and supple tannins adding shape. All used French oak. 2022- 2029 Josh Raynolds – February 2021 91 View from the Cellar The 2017 Mil Cepas “Viño de Parcela” from Manuel Manzaneque Suarez is a single vineyard wine that hails from a plot of forty year-old Cencibel vines, cropped at only fifteen hectoliters per hectare (less than half of Chambertin!). The wine is aged for fourteen months in “one wine” French barrels prior to bottling. The 2017 is quite refined on the nose, offering up scents of cherries, a touch of dark berry, woodsmoke, a lovely base of soil, chicory and just a touch of cedary oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and nicely sappy at the core, with good soil signature, fine-grained tannins and impressive length and grip on the complex finish. This is very good juice. 2020-2040. Issue #86 – March/April 2020	Bottle Image Label Image Tech Sheet