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When Michelangelo completed his statue of Moses in 1513, he is said to have struck her knee with his hammer in emotion and shouted: „Now speak!“ This legend inspired Juan Tirado and José Civantos when they travelled to Extremadura in 1999. Bodegas Habla were founded. On 200 hectares of slate soils near Trujillo, wines are produced here that really speak - through intensity, precision and an architecture that even wins art awards. The numbered vintages are deliberately unique: each number appears only once and is never repeated.
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Speak! - How a Renaissance genius became a wine name
Entrepreneurs Juan Tirado and José Civantos spent eight years searching for the perfect terroir for their dream. They found it in the very place where Francisco Pizarro once set off to conquer Peru: in Trujillo, in the heart of Extremadura. The Slate floor is barren, the summers scorching hot, the winters cuttingly cold - conditions that destroy weak vines and drive strong ones to peak performance. With the oenologists Florent Dumeau from Bordeaux and Eduardo de José Prada, they formed a team that put Extremadura on the Spanish wine map.
Copper, slate and gravity
The bodega itself is a statement. Designed by GAP Arquitectos, the 12,000 square metre building blends into the landscape - half underground, to save energy and process the grapes by gravity in the Roman style. The copper outer skin patinates over the years like a good wine. This concept won the Extremadura Architecture Award. Inside, sterile stainless steel zones for fermentation alternate with atmospheric rooms made of black slate and chestnut wood - a contrast that also characterises the wines.
The Numbers series: No repetition
What other wineries would see as a restriction, Habla turns into a principle: Each number appears only once. The Habla No 29 from Cabernet Franc, Malbec and cabernet sauvignon is never produced again - when it is sold out, No. 30, No. 31 follows, forcing the winemakers to treat each vintage as an independent work of art. The numbers stand for single-varietal wines or small cuvées in limited editions - the Habla No 30 for example shows pure Syrah from organic cultivation.
From silence to below sea level
In addition to the numbers, there are the more accessible lines: Habla la Tierra as an introduction, Habla del Silencio (Silence speaks) as a multi-layered cuvée. And then there is Habla del Mar - a wine that actually matures under the sea. Fermented in pressurised tanks on the seabed, it explores what pressure, temperature and movement do to the wine. A research project that shows: Habla is never just about tradition, but always about the question of what wine can still become.