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Self-produced wine
Wines
Our production is small, 7,000 bottles of red wine and 2,000 bottles of white wine. These wines are not marketed outside the Alquería de Morayma. We have a low output, but high quality product – a ‘Vigiriego’ white wine and a red wine (matured for 12 months in the barrel).
Our wines are for sale exclusively from the Alquería de Morayma and from the restaurant Mirador de la Morayma in the Albayzin, opposite the Alhambra in Granada.
The Winery and Organic Production
The winery at the Alqueria has been designed, built, and equipped specifically for the preparation of organic wines – grapes from our own vineyards, tended by hand, aided by the most up to date technological equipment currently available.
The Vineyards
The Alqueria de Morayma vineyards are at an altitude of 1.000.metres, between two mountain ranges, the south face of the Sierra Nevada and the northern flanks of the Contraviesa. Here we have two hectares of red wine grapes, and a little lower down the white wine grape Vigiriega which is native to the Alpujarra.
Of the different types of red wine grape we grow primarily Tempranillo, (51% of our production), named for its short growing cycle and early ripening fruit. However, it is actually the Merlot grape (15% ) that is the first to ripen here. Syrah grapes constitute 30% and Carbernet Fran and Cabernet Sauvignon make up the remainder.
