Pago Casa Gran

In the cradle of Valencia’s Les Alcusses mountains, at over 500 meters above sea level, sits this timeless Pago, the Casa Gran, at the foot of the famed archeological site of La Bastida de Les Alcusses, one of the earliest Phoenician settlements, and one of the best preserved. This lofty valley contends for the title of earliest vines planted in Iberia. The remnants of winemaking here date back to at least the 4th century BC. These magical vineyards are a Valencian treasure. If you want to know more about the characteristics of this area you can take a look at www.vinerra.com   

Carlos Laso is a leader in scaling organic and natural farming practices in Valencia, embracing permanent crop cover and chemical free farming since taking over the family domain almost twenty years ago. With centuries of winemaking in their family, Manuela Galbis, Carlos' mother, was tasked at the age of 18 with taking care of this family vineyard in the 60's. She grew the Pago into the international and commercial success it is today.  in the middle of the last century, getting her driver's license and commuting 43km on country roads every day to tend the vineyards and cellars. Today Carlos proudly remembers his mother's fundamental role in what Pago has become, boasting of Manuela's courage in such complicated times in Spain.

Carlos took that baton and in the new millennium embarked on a new and more naturalistic farming regimen in addition to building new cellars. Since 2006 they’ve been organically certified. They're farm booms with biodiversity. In the vineyards, select floral crop cover draws particular pests from the vines of particular varieties. Perhaps more importantly, this  cover both cools and enriches the soils in a region famously hot and organically spare. This excellent fruit enters their newly built cellars where the virtues of terroir-farming meet the crispy-clean crowd-pleasing styling Pago Casa Gran’s known for. The utmost hygiene meets the rigorous organic standards of Delinat and the outcome is pitch perfect