The Alicante D.O. is becoming known for it's contemporary styles of wine and artisanal, pioneering bodegas. Toscar Monastrell is a pure varietal Mataro expressing the region's terroir as it relates to indigenous grapes with unique characteristics. From vines grown to limestone soils with an almost zero clay content, a wealth of minerals and very low level of organic material. A traditional vinification is applied to the fruit, inoculated to local yeasts and treated to a prolonged maceration on skins where the juices absorb good colour and ripe tannins. Traditionally fermented and bottled without any filtration whatsoever, this fully endowed wine should be allowed to settle with a decanting. Approx 13.5%