100% Garnacha

Food pairings: Grilled ribeye or lamb with warm spices.

Winemaking: Hand-harvested bunches are destemmed and the whole berries macerate in open-top stainless-steel vats. Fermentation is started with a pied de cuve and maceration lasts no more than eight days, followed by a gentle press in a vertical basket press. The 2022 was aged 16 months in second- and third-use 500-liter French oak puncheons and 600-liter demi-muids.

Vineyards and terroir: Breca is an old-vine Garnacha from high-altitude, low-density mountain vineyards in the Sierra de Pardos and Sierra de Peña Blanca, around Munébrega in southeastern Calatayud, on rocky slate and quartz soils, sometimes mixed with iron-rich or calcareous clay. The vines are dry-farmed and gobelet-trained, and the estate practices organic farming.

Family and history: Bodegas Breca was founded by Jorge Ordóñez in Munébrega, in D.O. Calatayud, to bottle Garnacha de Aragón, the historic Garnacha of this region. Old Vine Garnacha, also labeled Breca Garnacha, is the estate's flagship cuvée.

In the pictures: Jorge Ordóñez, founder of Bodegas Breca, in the estate's old-vine Garnacha vineyards in Calatayud; the barrel hall at the bodega, with casks stenciled Bodegas Breca; a close view of those old head-trained vines; and a Viñedos Breca vineyard marker in the same hills. Photos of Jorge and the vineyards courtesy of Jorge Ordóñez Selections; barrel hall from the Bodegas Breca profile at Así es Aragón.