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TERROIR
Locatedatanaverageof1,650feet(503me)abovesealevel in areas with an old riverbed and scrubland, the vineyard has soils of varied profiles: from the fine and sandy loam sands of the Estrecho pago, to stony soil profiles formed by gravels in theElChaconerovineyard.
El Chaconero is a very unusual vineyard. The layers of the subsoil are not horizontal but oblique, so the results are numerous small plots with totally different soils. Gravel or sandy-silty or totally sandy plots can be found in the same vineyard.
The microclimate is relatively extreme for the province of Alicante, despite the proximity to the coast (about 37 miles or 60 km). Considered a continental Mediterranean climate, the microclimate is a transition between the two, with cold wintersandwarmersummersthanonthecoast.
