Winemaking in Jumilla inspires new jewelry collection

Designer Rosana Galián and Michelin-starred restaurant chef Pablo González-Conejero have created Latido, a capsule collection of jewelry, as part of Jumilla’s ‘Dialogues on Art and Wine’ project.

The duo are featured in the series’ second part, in which the wine-making process is given centre stage.

Pablo González-Conejero, a 2-star Michelin and Repsol 3 Soles chef at the Cabaña-Buenavista in Murcia, and also the ambassador chef for the Jumilla DOP, has continued his journey through wine, taking inspiration from artists in the region as well as from personalities working at different Jumilla DOP wineries.

In this second episode of Dialogues on Art & Wine featured on db last year, the focus has now turned to the winemaking process.

In the episode, Murcia architect and jewelry designer Rosana Galián from GarraStudio partners with the chef and they delve into the history of the Jumilla DOP vineyard.

The duo call-in at several of the region’s wineries to gain first-hand experience of the wine making process, closely observing such processes as grape sorting, de-stemming, vat bleeding, the crushing of the fruit and the alcoholic fermentation.

An “array of emotions” are experienced by the pair, the producer stated, as they “observe the different interactions and movements in winemaking” and “admire the resulting textures and colours”.

The experience is shown through a series of scenes in the video, and the inspiration for the creation of Latido.

Sensations evoked are “both sensorial and emotional”, depicted in “tones of red and magenta”, and using organic materials such as grape skins, it said.

Galián said: “The Latido collection conveys the seething movements of the vinification with the oozing of the juices and the bubbling of the must as it ferments. With the solid elements such as the grape stems, skins and lees also being portrayed, we enter into a dynamic, living, breathing entity which, in order to became a superb Jumilla wine, requires the dedicated care and attention of the winemaker.”

The idea of presenting the collection in video-form came from the duo’s wish to perform as a pair to convey their feelings artistically through a series of scenes.

In the video, and in a nod to Jumilla winemaking traditions, they play a scene in which the stomping of the grapes is acted out artistically. Rosana plays the role of a grape harvester treading on the grapes.

The chef’s head represents the trodden grapes, while the juice oozing from his head “reflects the great efforts needed in wine making and the success of working as a team,” the producer said.