The vineyard, planted in small independent plots of old ungrafted Monastrell vines, is found at an altitude of between 750 and 850 metres in soils of rough limestone with sandy subsoil.

This vineyard’s terrain is precisely one of its most outstanding characteristics. A little more than half a metre from the surface, the soil is covered, along the full extent of the vineyard, with limestone slabs about 15cm wide. The slabs were dug out by hand, leaving holes to plant the vines. This peculiarity explains the vineyard’s resistance to the droughts that regularly devastate the Murcia region, which never receives more than 250 litres per square metre of rain per year.
The work carried out in the vineyard and the treatments used on the crops conscientiously respect the natural environment. In fact, as the region is so dry and the soils so poor in nutrients, plagues and disease hardly exist, making aggressive treatments totally unnecessary.

The yield per vine never goes over 600gr. Furthermore, as a point of interest, the age of the vine indicates that it is a clone of the Monastrell variety, undoubtedly native to the region, planted, before the globalisation of plant marketing by the macro nurseries came into being.

The vineyard is divided between Monastrell that occupies 32 hectares, and Cabernet Sauvignon, occupying12 hectares.

As to the wines, made exclusively from grapes grown in the bodega’s own vineyards, Bodegas El Nido’s venture is built on two pillars: El Nido and Clio. Both are made from Monastrell and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes and aged in new oak during twenty to twenty-six months, depending on the vintage. Both wines are endorsed by DO Jumilla.