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| The Jumilla PDO breaks records in terms of grape quality and promises an excellent 2020 vintage | The harvest campaign has lasted for more than three months, starting at the beginning of August with the Syrah grape variety in the Paraje de la Caà ± ada del jud�o, in the southern part of Jumilla, and extending until the last week of October, as always with the indigenous variety par excellence of the Jumilla PDO, Monastrell, which was collected in the municipality of Montealegre del Castillo, the most north of the DO.

At the beginning of the harvest campaign, the harvest was about two weeks earlier than the previous year.

As every year, the southernmost part of the Jumilla PDO, in the municipality of Jumilla, began earlier than in the northern part, located in the Albacete municipalities that make up the PDO.

The data from the 2020 harvest confirm that there has been a lower entry of grapes into the wineries, almost 73 million kilos, due to the exhaustive control by field inspectors on the maximum authorized yields, which guarantee the maximum quality in the grapes, and therefore in the Jumilla PDO wines.

The weather has brought a smile to the Jumilla PDO, surpassing the average annual rainfall of 300 mm which, after a very hot summer, allowed a sigh of relief to the dry-planted vineyards, which represent more ¿½s of 70% of the total vineyard.

It has been an atypical vintage given that the "bubble crews" had to endure the hard days of work with masks to protect themselves from the pandemic, and to comply with new organizational protocols.

On the other hand, viticulturists, winemakers and winemakers agree to highlight the good sanitary state in which the grapes were found and the excellent quality parameters at the time of their collection, due to the fact that, Approaching the optimal date of ripening of the grapes, there were no rains, but there were winds that benefited the harvest, keeping possible pests and fungi at bay.

Everyone agrees that the wines made in 2020 augur a historic vintage in the Jumilla PDO.� function { ;(, , {});}

Source: DOP Jumilla