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"Valmira is one of those vineyards where the whims of nature are combined with the ancestral winemaking traditions of the region. A vineyard of the old world touched by a divine gift, whose extraordinary virtue we try to explain. In the heights of Mount Yerga, within the municipality of Alfaro, a vineyard among holm oaks looks down at the wide steppe of the Ebro Valley. Quiñón de Valmira, elevated and fragile beauty. Up to this calcareous podium at 615 meters above sea level, a group of monks arrived in the 11th century. Their steps ended a little higher, at the top of Yerga, where they founded the first Cistercian settlement in the Peninsula. The spirituality of the place, beaten by centuries of the Cierzo wind and Mediterranean sun, leaves a faint presence: the silent nerve of the Grenache, the charm of solitude. Mystic is also the affinity of the vines with this environment. A long and almost forgotten history of adaptation and nature, which today leads to a stimulating resurgence. With Valmira, we return faith and gratitude to our own land. Facing southeast, Valmira sits on Quaternary Era lands. Its soils, only 20 centimeters thick, are formed by carbonate sedimentation of calcareous and clay-iron-bearing colluvium. Just below, we find a very deep calcareous-petrocalcic horizon, poor and very cold, with a characteristic white hue. In the freshness of the mountain, we sometimes feel an oceanic air, a moist northern breeze full of fragrances. Edaphological and microclimatic analyses define a vineyard with vertiginous maturity, very slow and late. The extreme austerity of the geology produces scarce and small clusters, which offer a smooth wine with a thousand details. A flowing stream full of vitality, pleasure, and indescribable mysteries. A craving of nature, a very fortunate coincidence that culminates in this elixir full of life."