Bodegas Habla: getaway to Trujillo among underwater wines and haute couture

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Much has been said about the synthetic diamonds that

has guessed in the photovoltaic power of Cáceres.

Better known for its monumentality, its cast of conquerors that fills the encyclopedia and the Torta del Casar, Trujillo was not until now a land of ecological precious stones.

But neither was it ever about wines.

Even less twenty years ago.

And so, against the current, a winery was born wanting to shake the board.

He started from 0, that is,

.

Then came the 1, the 2, the 3 ... their wines that, instead of names, carried numbers, like the legendary Chanel perfume.

Theirs, they said, were "haute couture wines" in designer bottles.

They came to the market to break it.

This year, Bodegas Habla is going for number 23.

The appointment to know its history is

, when, prior reservation, the winery shows and tells the visitor its trajectory.

A story that begins ... with cows.

Under the huge sign of the winery on the outskirts of the urban area, some horned Cachenas appear grazing freely.

Luckily the vineyards appear right away.

La Cacereña is a winery

the style of

French

, with a total of 42 plots where

grow

.

Once in its facilities, the story begins with the genius of the Renaissance: "Legend has it that the sculptor Michelangelo considered his Moses as

. When he finished it, the artist struck the statue with his mace and said: Speaks!".

The winery on the outskirts of Trujillo.

This artistic and transgressive aspiration has a lot to do with the winery not being governed by a DO They make wine in their own way.

During the visit, you will visit the different production rooms and the

, a novelty this year, as well as the museum that houses the collection of its most emblematic wines, the numbered ones.

"They are limited editions in every way," explains Victoria, at the forefront of wine tourism.

"Limited because we make few bottles (between 3,000 and 5,000 at most) and also because they are not made every year."

This rarity has been years since

and others have released three on the market.

There are also no rules regarding the type of grape: the winemaker chooses the best blend that the field offers each year.

Thus, No. 22 is 100% Tempranillo while No. 23 is Malbec ... These are the last. The most emblematic are perhaps No. 3 and No. 6, the two Syrah, of which there are currently less than 100 bottles on the market. And of course: "as fewer remain, we raise the price." It is a good claim for the collector. But the flagship of the winery continues to be

the wine that was born with the crisis precisely to reach the general public. This is precisely one of the gold medals of this year's London Wine Competition (LWC), the contest that recognizes wines for their value for money.

The visitor can also go to the vineyard, "where the wine is really made."

They are slate and clay soils wrapped in a microclimate that maintains the temperature "five degrees lower than that of Trujillo."

On the way you may come across

.

Even with slender

... They are the other neighbors of the estate of the creator of the winery, the businessman

, "behind every step" that occurs in Habla.

The tanks where the wine ferments in the sea.

Underwater wines

One of his latest

is

, a pioneering project with a patent, explains the guide. These are not wines made in Cáceres, but white varieties from the Cantabrian area that are taken to San Juan de Luz to be submerged in the sea. In the hold they have one of the sample buoys. These 350-liter tanks are submerged

for a

There the wine ages between 6 and 9 months.

Then it is bottled in Trujillo.

The experts assure that the pressure of the seabed and its currents "contribute a constant homogenization of the yeasts".

Whatever happens, the truth is that it shows.

Habla del Mar is a

wine

that does exactly what it says: talk about the sea.

PRACTICAL GUIDE

Where to sleep:

In the National Parador of Trujillo.

From 90 euros / night.

Where to eat.

Corral del Rey Restaurant.

Grill in the Plaza Mayor.

More information.

Bodegas Habla offers three types of visit.

From 10 euros.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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