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The AALTO project was founded in February 1999, in the prestigious winemaking region of Ribera del Duero (Spain). The foundational aim of Mariano Garcia and Javier Zaccagnini in AALTO was to make a wine that shows a different personality, of high quality and being a faithful reflection of distinct locations, blending them at the end of the aging process to obtain balance and complexity.

A few years later, in 2006, Masaveu and Nozaleda families joined AALTO, both owners of wineries in other wine regions of Spain, providing experience and stability to the project, which meant the consolidation of the winery to this day.

From its beginnings in 1999 until the harvest of 2004, the production of our wines took place in rented facilities in Roa (Burgos, Spain). While the project was being established, the founders began looking for a new place to locate their own new winery. A beautiful plot of 15 hectares belonging to the municipality of Quitanilla de Arriba (Valladolid) was chosen.

The first phase of the new winery was completed in 2005, being that year the first harvest that was produced in these facilities. The modern design chosen for this new winery was carried out only with the very highest quality criteria. The architecture of the winery is perfectly integrated into the environment, in a typical Ribera del Duero plateau, with a lineal and harmonic design without ostentation, and minimalistic details, elegant and comfortable. The second phase of the winery corresponding to the more social part of the winery was completed in 2016.

In 1923 Baldomero Moure started to produce his first wines in one of those small and humble wineries in plot in A Cova. But thanks to Carmen's inheritance and the savings brought from America, he began to acquiring farms in the area and built a winery (on the current farm in Cunas).
In the 1950s, the winery already began to be small, and it was decided to build a larger and more modern one. It currently houses the barrel room and the room of vinification of wines aged in wood. Here ??? elaborate? on truncated-cone wooden casks of French oak between 3000 and 7000 liters of capacity and carry out aging in oak barrels of different origins.
At the beginning of the years 2000, the main winery was built, which currently houses the laboratory, the tasting room and is the place where we produce young wines and small vinifications and experimental trials. Wine production is used stainless steel, although other materials are used in the experimental area. This winery was conceived in order to operate by gravity and with the highest technology to respect to the maximum the integrity of the grape.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the upheavals produced in European viticulture by the phylloxera plague caused the rapid extension of vineyard cultivation in the Jumilla region, which at that time was not a first-rate viticultural center as it is today. In 1870 and taking advantage of these new circumstances, an enterprising wine broker named Roque Martínez founded, together with two partners, the first commercial winery in Jumilla. His son Pedro Luis Martínez García, already alone, made the family business prosper during the first half of the following century in such a way that, to this day, the name "Pedro Luis Martínez" is synonymous with quality wines, business solvency and business honesty. In 1929 his mistelas won the Grand Prize at the Universal Exhibition of Barcelona. At that time, the winery could house a total of 300,000 liters of wine, obtained through the procedures of the time: treading the grapes in the presses, pressing the pomace in vertical presses, and stored and aging in wooden barrels. In 1957 the ownership and management of the winery passed to the next generation. In this period, the winery expanded its capacity to reach a capacity of 3,500,000 liters, acquired new buildings, expanded the old ones, and was modernized in technical means; belonging to the D.O. JUMILLA since its founding. In 1983, the company became a Limited Company, whose shareholders were entirely direct descendants of the founder. The management remained within the family environment. In 2011 the winery was acquired by the BASTIDA FAMILY, changing the commercial name to Bodega Alceno, and providing new wisdom and adapting the wines to the consumer, maintaining the same philosophy of the winery, where investments were made and continue to be made to adapt the winery to the new consumer trends, currently has modern winemaking techniques, In recent years, adapting to the times and market trends, BODEGAS ALCENO SA The concept of single varietal production is changing, such as the native Monastrell variety, and it also produces wines from the coupage of varieties such as Tempranillo, Syrah, Garnacha, Garnacha Tintorera, Cabernet Sauvingon, in reds and Sauvignon blanc, Verdejo, Airen and Macabeo in whites. , not ruling out Rosés, sweets with natural carbon dioxide, etc. and being the first winery in Jumilla to elaborate the first Champanoise Rosé de Monastrell method, the current management and technical team of the winery, which has been directed since 1997 by the oenologist D. Juan Miguel Benítez García, has not given up in its effort to experiment new wines with which to break into the national and international market firmly and decisively. As a result of this effort is the launch of its first bottled wine, made from the Syrah, Tempranillo and Monastrell varieties, which is marketed under the name "ALCENO" and is available in White, Rosé, Red and Selección (wines, the latter , subjected to its refining in new American and French oak wood), all of them awarded both nationally and internationally by different associations and competitions.

Bodegas Arloren is a dream come true. A challenge assumed by a typical Spanish family, which from generation to generation have lovingly captured the history of the good work of 4 generations in extraordinary Spanish wines, full of values and personality.

Bodegas Arloren ...
... was founded in 1972 and its main activity is the production and aging of quality wines. The company has its main headquarters in Murcia and the winery in Canada del Trigo, Jumilla, belonging to its Denomination of Origin. This denomination, which includes some 30,000 hectares of vineyards, has been highlighted by the specialized press as an emerging denomination of origin for the quality and originality of its wines.

There can be no doubt that Arzuaga wines are made based on three premises: the soil, the climate and the orientation of the vineyards.

The Arzuaga winery is in Valladolid, in the heart of the Ribera del Duero Designation of Origin. The wines come from La Planta, an estate belonging to the Arzuaga family in Quintanilla de Onésimo, in the province of Valladolid. This is an excellent location for vine-growing, as the plants receive the sun and moisture they need for the grapes to ripen perfectly.

The local flora and fauna coexist perfectly with the vines in La Planta. The flora includes pines, holm oaks and savin juniper, and, among the animals are wild boars and red deer. This coexistence clearly shows the love the Arzuaga family feels for the natural world. The estate covers 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) in a wonderful location in the heart of the Ribera del Duero Designation of Origin area: its Golden Mile.

It was at the beginning of the 1990s when, after buying La Planta estate, Florentino Arzuaga began planting vines, building the winery and, of course, making wine.

For Arzuaga, quality is fundamental and this is the area where most care is taken.

Care begins in the vineyard, because it is impossible to make a good wine without healthy, high-quality grapes. We ensure that yield is very limited, associated with the low fertility of the soils and the tough Castilian climate. If production is too high, the wine loses quality and the flavour is less concentrated. The excellent quality of the grapes – an essential ingredient of good wine, the care with which the vines are looked after and a passion for hard work have earned Arzuaga wines a fine reputation in the Ribera del Duero Designation of Origin.

The Arzuaga Winery has 210 hectares (520 acres) of vineyards distributed between the immediate surroundings of the winery and the natural area of La Planta estate. The Arzuaga vineyards enjoy a unique climate: sunshine and clear skies in the daytime and cool, damp nights. This climatic combination means the grapes ripen slowly but perfectly, producing healthy fruit with plenty of colour, full of sugar and aromatic acidity. In this region of Castile, where low fertility is a feature of the soils, the Tinto Fino or Tempranillo variety is grown, together with the French grapes Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. 80% of the vineyards are more than 20 years old, with a production of more or less 4,000 kg/ha.

Bodegas Atalaya is the Gil Family Estates project, in which it participates together with the López family from El Pilar de la Horadada, in the Almansa Protected Designation of Origin, located east of the province of Albacete, between Valencia, Alicante and Murcia, in the transit area between the Castilian plateau and the Mediterranean Sea. The first harvest of Bodegas Atalaya dates back to the 2007 vintage, since then progress has been made in the facilities and investigating in the elaboration of the Garnacha Tintorera and Monastrell varieties to give shape to the current range of products, which reflect the character and the personality of the land that give it the most emblematic varieties of the area. Bodegas Atalaya thus maintains the imprint that the Gil Family Estates group wants to reflect on all the wines in its portfolio, showing the most genuine essence of the wine-growing areas from which they come.

Ateca Winery, founded in 2005, is the project of the Gil Family in the Denomination of Origin Calatayud, placed in the municipality of Ateca (in Zaragoza), 14km far from the city that names this D.O. Ateca wines are the result of a detailed work on selecting the grape, with exhaustive analytical and organoleptic quality criteria, coming from a harvest done in the precise moment of ripening. The Australian enologist Michael Kyberd is the technical director.

Bodegas Avancia lies snuggled in the slate dominant mountainsides of Valdeorras, high above the Sil River. Named for the extensive gold mining that the Romans conducted in this area, (Val-de-Oras roughly translates to Valley-of-Gold in Latin) Valdeorras is home to the finest terroir for growing two of Spain’s most important indigenous grapes – Godello and Mencía.

Jorge was the first broker to introduce Godello into the United States, and for many years, was the only merchant offering a wine made from this unique grape. Jorge always dreamed of having his own Godello project, and Bodegas Avancia is the result of this dream. Bodegas Avancia produces the finest Godello wines in all of Spain.

In 2016, Robert Parker, Jr. stated “One of my favorite wineries in Spain is Bodegas Avancia. This is a small estate of roughly 23 acres, dry farmed (a characteristic of all of the selections of Jorge Ordónez), with organic viticulture. Their specialty is working with the Godello grape, which may well be Spain’s finest indigenous white grape. It has the texture of a Chardonnay, but with crisp, mineral and floral notes in its aromatics. Avancia is certainly the top producer of this intriguing and delicious dry white.”

Jorge also selected D.O. Valdeorras due to its unique conditions for growing Mencía, Galicia’s most important red grape. The combination of slate soils, high altitudes, old vines, and warmer climate compared to the rest of Galicia provide Valdeorras with the best terroir for growing Mencía.

Barahonda makes balanced and expressive wines full of colour and flavour; complex wines which have their personality and which every year achieve prizes, awards and high scores by the best wine critics in the world.

As the Barahonda logo proclaims, the wines are linked to the field, made from the vine. Grapes are carefully raised as it is an essential part in the personality of a quality wine.

Around 1850 Pedro Candela Soriano started to produce and sell small amounts of wine locally. In 1925 Antonio Candela García endowed a small winery. Subsequently the winery was managed by Antonio Candela Poveda, who made it grow and develop throughout the years. Nowadays, his two sons, Antonio and Alfredo, take the helm and manage the wineries and the family estates.

From a small and local business to a modern winery which produces quality wines highly appreciated in the international markets, the knowledge and traditions have been handed down through these four generations. The Candela Family has spent a lifetime working with wine and Barahonda is the visible result of this passion.

Founded in 1821 in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Bodegas Barbadillo fulfills a centuries-old tradition as a 100% family winery producing the denominations, Jerez-Xeres-Sherry, Brandy de Jerez, Vinagre de Jerez, Vinos de la Tierra de Cádiz and D.O. Manzanilla-Sanlúcar de Barrameda, which leads with a stock share of over 50%.

In a small paradise in southern Spain, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, the Barbadillo family bottled the first Manzanilla in 1821. Since then, this family-owned and centennial company has not stopped growing.

Barbadillo is one of the 10 largest and oldest family businesses in Spain. Bodegas Barbadillo, with almost 200 years of history, continues to be a 100% family business.

Bodegas Barbadillo has been at the forefront of its sector for centuries, being a pioneer in many aspects: Bottling the first chamomile that left for Philadelphia in 1827; They were the first to name this type of wine "Manzanilla"; First Andalusian white wine made 100% from fine palomino in 1975.

Winery founded in the thirties of the last century that has produced txakoli for several generations. It has its own vineyards and since 1989 it has been incorporating modern equipment and machinery to produce excellent quality txakoli. Its txakoli has a white fruit scent, is balanced and offers a pleasant fresh finish.

Basa-Lore produces Getaria Txakoli with the Getariako Txakolina designation of origin. This guarantees that its careful elaboration and quality control are respected, offering the consumer an excellent wine. The Basa-Lore winery has been making txakoli since the 30s through several generations. It has its own vineyards and combines tradition with advanced technologies to obtain the best results.

In 1935 Antonio Capdevila Pujol and his wife Teresa Blancher Solanes acquire property in the estate and Masia Can Canjon in the municipality of Teia (Barcelona), located in the Maresme, very typical area of white wines, including in the Alella DO and cava, in order to realize one of his dreams, produce their own wines and champagnes. Antonio Capdevila was a close friend with the winemaker Angel Escude, which advised him to make the first steps.

First they changed the farm, to build terraces in seven different levels, eliminating the slopes and perform agricultural work with more comfort.

When the first strains began to bear fruit, developed the first cava rested for many years in the cellar of the farmhouse Can Canjon, built in 1848. Its success, and continuous visits to the capital of cava, where he befriended the Planas family (wine growers and dealers bulk wine since the late 1800s and first processors of wine alcohol bottling pharmacies) prompted him to build cavas Blancher, which stood at the center of the capital of cava Sant Sadurní.

Claramente reconocibles gracias al característico sabor intenso y a la gran calidad de los Priorat, vinos de la bodega Bravo Escos sorprenden por su elegancia, frescura y ligereza. Unos vinos sutiles y delicados, con un sabor realmente único y emocionante.

La belleza indómita y la tierra única del Priorat, han convertido a esta región en el punto de referencia de los vinos más selectos de Espana, con una intensidad y profundidad de sabor inigualables. La bodega Bravo Escós está situada en el corazón de esta región única, donde cultiva y cosecha los insuperables furtos de esta tierra singular.

Located in the sleepy town of Munébrega, Bodegas Breca was founded by Jorge Ordónez in 2010 with the mission of producing the finest "Garnacha de Aragón". Garnacha de Aragón, the clone used to produce the wines of Bodegas Breca, is the most ancient and genetically untouched clone of of Garnacha (Grenache) in the world. Garnacha was first cultivated in this northeastern corner of Spain, and transplanted across the Mediterranean by the medieval Kingdom of Aragón, which had territories across the Mediterranean.

In 1941, it is when Mr Jose Sanchez-Cerezo acquires the “Propiedad Viticola Casa Castillo” for development of rosemary. In the property was a winery built in 1870 by French people. Is in 1985 when the second generation of the family (Mr Nemesio and his son Jose Ma Vicente) starts with a new project with the reconstruction of the vineyard and with the introduction of new varieties. In 1991 the wine cellar was reformed preserving the original structure. The first wine was launched to the market in 1993 as “Casa Castillo Crianza 1991”. At present Jose Ma Vicente manages the "Propiedad Vitícola Casa Castillo”.

DE MOYA is a family winery founded by Yves and Sofie Laurijssens. Built on a foundation of family values, hard work and tradition. The family Laurijssens is known for their expertise in successful “turn arounds” in Belgium.

Yves and Sofie started the winery with a passion for Food, Family and Fun. If you are lucky enough to be invited to a family dinner one day, it will quickly become clear what this means.

Their approach is in many ways distinct and different. They are famous for “out of the box thinking”. Whether it is for the packaging or for the winemaking. They always come up with unconventional but simple solutions.

Four generations turning tradition in perfect moments.

First of all, want to show the appreciation to the relatives Dupuy De Lôme, who made the decision to establish in this single enclave in 1836, aware of the singularity of its soils for producing quality wines. It was allowing to reach the objective of launching this exciting new project: Winery “Clos De Lom”.

“Clos De Lom” is the result of a steady effort, the implementation of a definite vocation, the contribution of a constant will, engagement, discipline, the tenacity and obsession, sacrifice, patience and a desire to achieve something important; the wines.

The history of the family and this place is the necessary stimulus that guide to all those who are part of this project. Aware of the requirements, but convinced of the capacity of the team, through its valuable collaboration, its effective activity, their enthusiasm, their loyalty and responsibility, forming the team that has made it possible to launch Clos De Lôm.

The first steps of this winery began to bear fruit at the end of 2001, as a result of the collaboration agreement between the Gil Family and Chris Ringland, one of the best Australian winemakers.
The first harvest to be marketed is the 2002 vintage under the El Nido and Clío brands.
In the 2009 campaign, the first harvest of Corteo is made, which completes the current range of Bodegas El Nido wines.

The winery is located in the Valle de la Aragona, 10 kilometers north of the city of Jumilla, within the "upper term", so called because it is the highest altitude area within the municipal term of this city.

The vineyards, located in the surroundings of the winery, are mostly planted on very limestone soils and stony on their surface. In the subsoil, about 30/40 cm. deep, there is a layer of tosca (limestone of medium consistency) that covers the entire extension of the vineyard, its thickness is between 15 and 30 cm. and underneath there is a very sandy ground to which the roots extend. The altitude varies between 700 m. and the 850 m. above sea level. They are made up of small parcels with a total of 32 hectares of the Monastrell variety, of very old vineyards and some almost centenary, 12 hectares of Cabernet Sauvignon and 1.8 hectares of Syrah, planted on gentle hills facing north.

BODEGAS EL TANINO is located in the emblematic place of Los Altos de Santiago in Hoya Gonzalo, province of Albacete.

Established in January 2006, the winery is made up of partners from the municipalities of Hoya Gonzalo, Chinchilla de Montearagón, Bonete and Pozo Canada, among which a production of approximately 3 million kilograms of grapes is concentrated, of which, about 80% correspond to the Garnacha Tintorera variety, with the rest being produced from varieties such as Syrah, Petit Verdot, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, Macabeo and Chardonnay

The main objective of the winery is to work with love and effort in viticulture. We take care of the vines in all the stages of the plant, from the vegetative period to ripening, in this way we obtain and select the best grapes from vineyards grown at 970 m s. n. m. where the weather and the type of soil provide quality and distinction to all our wines.

The Garnacha Tintorera, despite being the most unknown, has shown an optimal aromatic and polyphenolic potential for aging in barrels.

Bodegas Godelia is located in El Bierzo, a unique landscape and exceptional environment for winemaking. Located in the northwest of Spain, El Bierzo is a region surrounded by mountains that forms a large valley cut through by the Sil River, with a wide array of soils and orientations in its vineyards. The richness of the soil, combined with the age of the vineyard, makes it a unique place to produce high quality wines.

Right on the Camino de Santiago, the winery is located on the route through El Bierzo. Literally. The French Way of Saint James goes past the front door. It is the exact point where the countdown to the last 200 km begins and the pilgrim’s final stage before arriving in Galicia. There are delighted to accompany on the journey at the winery. This is not by chance, since El Camino brought with it a legacy to which the winery wants to pay tribute. This special location in El Bierzo has given the winery the self-satisfaction of carefully growing the native grape varieties: Mencía, Godello, and Dona Blanca. The aim is always to transmit terroir, sensitivity, and elegance in the wines.

Godelia’s great virtue lies in the fact that it was born as a passion at the end of 2009. It is a love for nature that led the García Rodríguez family, the founders of the winery, to give an outlet to their enthusiasm for viticulture in El Bierzo. It is a dream come true, a winery in El Bierzo that creates value and a future for the region, a legacy through its wines. It’s about not being satisfied until to create a masterpiece, with a healthy amount of excitement, dedication, and effort. All this, to achieve excellence.

From a family tradition dating back to the nineteenth century and protected in all new concepts of growing, making and aging, born in 2006 Carche a bodega oriented to satisfy the palate of new wine consumers D.O. Jumilla.

Vineyards and olive groves, body and soul of this land of sun, fill the 100 hectares of land, combining irrigation and shade of the Sierra del Carche with its wild and revealing dry land; senescence of vines over fifty years, with the freshness of those planted in 2007; the grape variety Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Garnacha, Monastrell clothing to the native for the production of our red wines, and Macabeo and Sauvignon Blanc for whites ... the explosion of contrasts that constitutes the profound essence of this region.

The construction of the winery with modern lines and noble materials such as natural stone Villa Mayor, marble and wood are mixed to maintain an internal temperature in the hold all ideal for producing wines with a unique personality year, highlighting their full integration with the environment, an ideal stage in front of the Sierra del Carche in Jumilla.

Equipped with the most modern vinification systems, such as stainless steel tanks of different capacities, all refrigerated and remounted automatic musts, presses electronically controlled to extract only the flower must or microfiltration to ensure microbiological stability, it allows us to obtain a complex, harmonious and modern wines without losing the identity of our land.

The aging for a capacity of 600 barrels, now houses 90% of French oak and American oak barrels rest of toast and different capacities.

Marcos Lojo is a Technical Engineer in Food Industry by the University of Santiago de Compostela and Winemaker.

He began his career in 1995 working as aWinemaker and Technical Director in some of the most emblematic wineries of the DO Rias Baixas , and Vinhos Verdes in Portugal, always making white wines of the Albarino variety.

Today he can be considered one of the oldest and most knowledgeable winemaker of the area and of the Albarino grape variety.

The winery Javier Sanz Viticultor is located in La Seca, the heart of the Rueda Denomination of Origin. Javier Sanz is the great-grandson and successor of Agustín Nanclares, who began this tradition by cultivating the vineyards on his property called Villa Narcisa. Now, he has assumed the reins of this winery combining, in perfect harmony, tradition and modernity. The geographical location of the wineries and vineyards is essential to understand the quality of their wines. It is in La Seca (Valladolid), with its vineyards next to the Ribera del Duero (some even only 1,500 meters from the Douro River), where there is the highest concentration of vineyards in the entire river basin. The total area of La Seca covers 2,744 hectares, twice as much as in the immediately lower town. In addition, in this town there are 16 wineries, of which 14 belong to wine growers, and two cooperatives. Among all the wineries are able to produce and process more than 20 million kilos of grapes of the total 60 million O.D. Wheel.

The proximity of the Javier Sanz winery to the vineyards, located in the first banks of the Ribera del Duero, facilitates an almost immediate transfer of the grapes after harvesting, taking a maximum of four hours, thus keeping intact all their properties and aromas. The Javier Sanz winery has 104 hectares of cultivated vineyards. The surface is composed of sand and boulders and the subsoil by a clayey layer, which favors ventilation and natural drainage of the vines. These unique characteristics that are found in the town of La Seca, together with the microclimate of the area, are what differentiate us from other Verdejos of the D.O. Wheel.

The knowledge and know-how are the main assets of a winery that takes great care in the whole process of making their wines. This tradition was maintained over the years until in 1995 the Villa Narcisa brands were created, currently their "flagship product", and later Holy King. The work to offer the best product, begins with a special care in the most traditional relationship between the winegrower and the vine, to culminate with a modern winemaking process that manages to faithfully preserve all this family philosophy of winemaking.

Bodegas Jorge Ordónez Málaga, located in Ordónez’s hometown, was founded in 2004. A partnership between Ordónez and the Kracher family of Austria, the winery was founded with the goal of resuscitating the centuries long tradition of winemaking in Málaga, which was destroyed by the phylloxera plague in the 19th century. It was Jorge’s dream to champion his home region and restore it to its former glory.

The winery has more than accomplished its goal by producing the Spain’s first and best dry Moscatel de Alejandría, Botani, and by reviving the tradition of unfortified sweet wine making in Málaga. Our series of sweet wines, N°s 1 through 4, are amongst the finest in the world, and are produced in the style of the unfortified sweet wines of Málaga that were internationally renowned in the 17th through 19th centuries. In 2012, N°2 Victoria became the first Spanish wine ever served at a Nobel Prize dinner.

Jorge Ordónez Málaga produces its dry and sweet wines from Muscat of Alexandria, the oldest clone worldwide of the Muscat varietal. This is the original Muscat, which was originally cultivated extensively around Alexandria, Egypt, and planted in Málaga by Phoenician traders 3,000 years ago. Muscat of Alexandria is one of the world’s only remaining ancient (genetically uncrossed) grape varieties and the most important for commercial wine production. The Muscat of Alexandria vineyards used by Jorge Ordónez Málaga were planted between 1902 and 1974 on un-terraced mountainside vineyards. The vineyards of Málaga are perhaps the most extreme and dangerous in Europe, due to the decomposed slate soils, and inclines of up to 70°. The vast majority of steep vineyards in Europe have terraces or are mechanized in some way to protect workers and assist with harvest. The vineyards in Málaga have remained untouched. All pruning and harvesting is done by hand, and mules carry six 15kg boxes up the slopes at a time. An absolutely heroic form of viticulture.

In order to work with grapes that have high acidity, Jorge Ordónez Málaga exclusively works with mountainside vineyards that are oriented away from the Mediterranean. In such a warm, dry climate, most grapes would completely lack balancing acidity. Furthermore, most of the winery’s vineyards are located at above 700m above sea level.

Four generations, one name

Since 1916, when Juan Gil Jiménez had the winery built, only one clear idea has moved the following generations in charge of the same:

Doing a good job and being prideful of the Juan Gil name and commercial trademark.

Juan Gil Guerrero, a founder’s son, firstly, and then his grandson Juan Gil González, improved and consolidated the winery, applied the traditional knowledge of their job transmitted from parents to children. Nowadays, the fourth generation, linking the tradition with the technical revolution, is the one that enjoys the result of the work done by the predecessors.

The international recognition of the quality of our wines is summarized in the name of Juan Gil.

A particular style

In this place, with extreme climate and strong contrast, is where our winery is located.

With hot summers of intense sun, long and cold winters, a difference of 25oC between day and night, almost total absence of rainfall, and with a dry and stony ground. These land particularities are which gives us the character we have, which marks our people and, of course, our wines. It’s our way of doing things.

In the kingdom of Monastrell

The vineyards are located between 700 and 850 meters of altitude, on a sandy and limestone soil, stony on the surface and very poor in nutrients, with a great holding capacity of the little water it receives. It’s the kingdom of Monastrell, a grape variety owned by this region that is present in the vast majority, and exclusively, in all our wines.

Next to the old vines, aged more than forty years, and other younger Monastrell ones, also grow Syrah, Cabernet, Merlot and Petit Verdot grapes, which are well suited to the terrain and provide intense shades of spices and fruit.

A new age

Since the building of the new winery many things have changed. The new way of making wine needs technology: rigorous temperature control of wine, stainless steel tanks, and excellent hygienic conditions throughout the process, assures each year the quality levels.

But wine is not only "made" in the cellar, the first is the vineyard. Therefore, the situation of the vineyard, next to the winery, allows comprehensive monitoring of the evolution of the grapes needed to obtain a great wine condition. It’s a new age, with new wines and a mixture of old vines and new techniques.

Bartolomé Abellán is the enologist and who coordinates the rest of the technical divisions of the GFE group.

When Jorge Ordonez first travelled to Rías Baixas, the D.O. did not officially exist. What he found was a rich culture of family viticulture and winemaking. Most families had small plots of Albarino planted on pergolas built with posts taken from the mother rock – granite. Most of this Albarino was fermented and aged on the lees in large chestnut foudres.
Named for the straw-like canas (reeds or canes) that line the shores of the Atlantic inlets that carve into the granite coast of Galicia, the winery’s philosophy is to produce a traditional, authentic, and serious Albarino, in the style of the artisan wines that Ordónez discovered when he first arrived in the appellation in 1991.

Lagar da Condesa is the project held by Gil Family in the D.O Rías Baixas, in Galicia, with place in Val do Salnés. The winery is located in Arcos da Condesa, with a great winery tradition, in the municipality of Caldas de Reis where the thermal water is linked to the vineyards since long time ago. The winery, built in granite, as the typical Pazos from Galicia, and surrounded by vineyards, has the most modern technology. The winemaking whole process is aimed at extracting the best qualities of the grape. The harvesting and processing is manual combining the traditional method with the latest technology and respectful with the Albarino wine grape variety of this region and with all of our wines. The first crop at this winery corresponds to the year 2013.

Thirty years after Bernardo Luna launched himself into winemaking, today, the second generation of the Luna Beberide family, led by Alejandro Luna Beberide, only intends to follow that line of simplicity, quality and seek excellence based on to the care and respect of the vines since in 1998, with the help of Mariano García, who was the winemaker at Vega Sicilia for many years and a friend of the family, when they started the first reference reds from Luna Beberide.

Bodegas Martín Códax was founded in 1986 and was named after the most known Galician troubadour whose medieval poems, the oldest of Galician-Portuguese language with the original music, are preserved. In the poems, the troubadour sings to love and to the sea of our coastline.

The winery produces between 280,000 and 300,000 bottles per year in total of the four wines: Mauro; Mauro VS or Vendimia Seleccionada, which has a longer ageing period the grapes sourced come from the very best vines in two parcels; Terreus, from a single vineyard; and Mauro Godello, a white wine made with grapes from Villafranca del Bierzo.

Bodegas Orán is a winery that seeks develop fun and easy to drink wines: Wines that are suitable for any time and place. The wines are made with self-imposed standars of excellence, honesty and the humility that have learned of ancestors.

Our aim is that every person who choose any of our wines remembers it as unique, and we work hard for not disappoint anyone. This is why the most important to us are our vineyards.

The grapes are harvested in October in a perfect health. Therefore we choose our native varieties that are perfectly acclimated to our area. Clay soils and an altitude of 600 meters of our vineyards allows us to produce outstanding wines. This uniqueness is reflected in its fresh and fruity aromas. In our processes, the vintage combined with the varietal aromas bring about elegant, delicate and possibly with aging potential wines.

We are perfectionists and we think the best wine is always about to be done. This forces us to strive year after year and take each harvest as a challenge.

With the name of Orowines, the Gil Family has developed some commercial brands with a different, uninhibited and modern image. These are wines coming from different Spanish vineyards in where the Group has placed its wineries. White and red wines are produced with surprising freshness and elegance prevailing in all phases of their tasting. The idea is to produce very commercial wines with a refreshing packaging.

The wine-making origins of the Padró family date back to the year 1886 and to the village of Brafim (Tarragona), which was, at the time a busy agricultural hub with around 400 inhabitants.

The very first sales were of wines and liqueur wines loaded onto carts in large but basic barrels and sold directly from there by the first generation of wine-making Padros: Daniel Padró Porta (1846-1890) and his wife Rosa Valldosera. At the time, they ran a fairly humble establishment with just one press and a small amount of distillery equipment for making spirits and anise liqueurs.

The fifth generation, currently in charge of the winery, are following the same philosophy as their ancestors and producing quality bulk and bottled wine, liqueur wines and vermouths and have taken care to make sure their company keeps up with the times as regards modern wine-making processes and technology (tangential filtration, continuous tartaric stabilization and so on…) at their bottling plant as well as extending the Padró family vineyards and implementing a new grape reception and wine storage facility.

After more than 25 years of experience, elaborating and understanting the soils, varieties and the climate of Alicante, Pepe Mendoza begin with his wife Pepa Agulló Llorca and his children, his own little personal project.

To the first 14 hectares of Monastrell, Syrah, Alicante Bouchet, Airen and Macabeo, distributed througth Sierra Salinas and Pinoso, “Alto Vinalopó”, they already joined 10 more hectares of Giró-Garnacha and Moscatel of Alejandría in Lliber, “Marina Alta”.

PERAHIGOS is the maximum expression of a whole philosophy that underlies a comprehensive oenological project located in an exceptional and unique enclave called “Sierra de Francia”, located in the south of the province of Salamanca, in Spain. This place was named the Sierras de Béjar and Francia Biosphere Reserve in 2006 and the Batuecas Natural Park, in addition to belonging to the Natura 2000 network. These distinctions already make one suppose the privileged and incomparable nature of these places. It is in this place where nature, art and tradition are written in capital letters where a project is located, PERAHIGOS.

The winery is located in the heart of the Ribeiro region, on the banks of the Mino River, and the wine is the product of many generations that have cultivated the vineyards. Priorato de Razamonde was born of the hard work and dedication of a family who found, over the years, that wine is the best way to represent what their land has to offer.

What began as a small family vineyard with barely a hectare of land has grown into a world-renowned winery. Thanks to the process of consolidating land parcels, the property is currently comprised of a total of 28 hectares, 20 of which are vineyards.

“Grapes are like diamonds in the rough; they must be shaped and polished, but never modified”

The Bodega Santa Cruz de Alpera was founded in 1947 by 25 winegrowers. Their goal was to create a winery to elaborate their own wines and this journey leads us to today. After more than 60 years of experience and with larger vineyards and totally modernized facilities, the new face was challenges ahead. It aim to keep the cooperative identity; the winery offers unique products due to grow a single variety, Garnacha Tintorera. With about 3,000 hectares cultivated, more than a third in organic farming, the winery meets markets in several countries.

A winery surrounded by hundred-year-old vineyards.

The winery boasts a peculiar shape of plain and symmetric lines which are juxtaposed with the surrounding worker. Despite this, it is perfectly integrated in the landscape of the valley. The winery is built with traditional materials and is surrounded by the vineyards that provide the valuable raw material.

Inside the building you can visit the modern winemaking facilities, taste products and contemplate the landscape while enjoying a delicious meal in the restaurant on the upper floor.

In Barahonda they make balanced and expressive wines full of colour and flavour; complex wines which have their personality and which every year achieve prizes, awards and high scores by the best wine critics in the world.

As the Barahonda logo proclaims, wines are linked to the field, made from the vine. Grapes are carefully raised as it is an essential part in the personality of a quality wine.

This project of the Gil Family, in partnership with Enrique Busto, started in 2008. The winery and its vineyards are located in the southeast of the D.O. Rueda, in the province of Segovia. Belinda Thomson, from the Australian Crawford River Winery, where some of the best white wines in Vitoria Valley are produced, is in charge of the technical direction.

Adegas Terra de Asorei is six families of top growers belonging to the Rias Baixas Designation of Origin who have banded together to produce premium 100% Albarino wines. With own 60 Ha of Albarino vineyards Adegas Terra de Asorei go from a familiar company to a professional organization producing wonderful white wines.

The winery is located in the Salnés Valley, particularly in the city of Meis, the heart of Albarino and has the best combination of experience and the most innovative technological abilities and our capacity of production is up to 400.000 bottles.

The vineyards, from 80 to 20 years average old, are located in the Salnés Valley, in the Rias Baixas region, one of the main tourist areas of Galicia, with a privileged climate of Atlantic influence with mild temperatures and abundance rainfall without excesses. The Salnés Valley is located on the left bank of the estuary of Arousa.

Adegas Terra de Asorei has a professional human team that search for the perfection in the elaboration of the wines and in the service to their clients.

From the wine revolution that emerged in Galicia following the establishment in 1980 of the D.O. Rías Baixas, José María Fonseca, current president, began to see things clearly in the world of wine, and from his position on the Board, managed and supported the development of viticulture and enology courses, plus a series of related partnerships in the art of winemaking. With the initiative of the private sector and following the foundation of Vinedos do Rosal S.A. and Adegas das Eiras S.A., the dream of the Founders was realized with the establishment of the O Rosal wines. The winery’s philosophy was that Albarino, being such a noble variety, could benefit greatly from a union with other native varieties to provide it with subtle new qualities and so further enhance the already strong reputation of O Rosal wines. In 1990 the winery was founded and the produce of local grape-growers was used to make 37,000 bottles of Terras Gauda ‘90, the first year’s production, at the same time it was started to plant their own vineyards, with a clear view towards safeguarding the identity of O Rosal wine. In 1992, with the winery’s commitment to establishing its uniqueness now in place, the first wine from Albarino variety was produced: Abadía de San Campio. Terras Gauda Black Label production started in 1993, the first wine of D.O. Rías Baixas that was barrel fermented and aged on its lees. Over the years, the original two companies have merged into one, called - logically, given the prestige and recognition achieved by the leading brand - Bodegas Terras Gauda, S.A. La Mar was introduced in early 2011, the first wine in the world produced mostly with Caíno Blanco, that allows to enjoy the subtlety and strength of this variety, achieving the recovery and preservation of Caíno Blanco which was on the point of completely disappearing from the world of viticulture. Bodegas Terras Gauda has made advances in research and development while also distribution both nationally and internationally. Current sales are 1.5 million bottles of wine in over 50 countries.

Tintoralba has its origins in the Santa Quiteria Cooperative in Higueruela (Albacete province), founded in 1958 to address the economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations shared by all its members. Since then, Tintoralba has maintained and promoted the principles that served as the foundation for this union: freedom, participation, autonomy, cooperation, commitment and interest in the common good. Today, it is a large enterprising team made up of 225 members, where all work together: join efforts, combine resources and perfect the knowledge to improve quality and technique to make exceptional products that accompany the most unique moments in the lives.

What makes Bodegas Tintoralba unique is that the members are more than associates. They are farmers, cousins, neighbors, shopkeepers, friends, and beyond all else, artists for elaborating outstanding wine. Over the years, as a community, it has been built up over 1,500 hectares of own vineyards, an exceptional achievement due to both the size and quality. Coupled with the outstanding leadership of the winemaker, Pedro Sarrión Martínez, wines production is reflect not only the character of the terroir, but of the emblematic indigenous grape, Garnacha Tintorera.

The facilities of Bodegas Tridente are placed in Villanueva de Campean, 30km south from Zamora, in the center of the so-called Land of The Wine. The winery, small sized, was designed for small productivity of red grapes, especially those of Tinta de Toro variety, indigenous of the land and with a tradition in the region. They are also produced the Prieto Picudo and Mencía varieties of grapes, coming from old vineyards with a low productivity, from Bierzo and León regions. The Gil Family is accompanied by Enrique Busto in this project and the technical direction is managed by Frank Gonzales, Australian enologist with a Spanish origin.

Long ago, the town of Toro was famous for producing the finest red wine in Spain and was mentioned in the historic literature of Alfonso IX (King of León, 12th c.), Juan Ruiz the Archpriest of Hita, Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, and Miguel de Cervantes. In 14th Century Sevilla, the sale of any foreign wine was prohibited, save the wines of Toro. These wines also accompanied Spanish explorers to the New World.

The legendary Duero River plays a very important role in the history of D.O. Toro. The Duero deposited Toro’s characteristic sandy soils in this region thousands of years ago. These sandy soils allowed D.O. Toro to completely resist the phylloxera plague, and as a result, Toro was the only Spanish region that completely resisted the phylloxera, and is home to the highest concentration of ungrafted vines in Spain.

Jorge Ordónez is Toro’s most important modern pioneer. When Jorge first travelled to Toro in 1991 he discovered no more than five cooperative wineries. He also found acres of incredible pre-phylloxera vineyards, planted on their original rootstock. In 1995, Jorge first travelled to Toro with the Eguren family of Rioja, in hopes of founding a winery with them. In 1997, Bodegas Numanthia was founded by Jorge and the Eguren family, and become an icon for this historic region and the production of world class wines from authentic vineyards. By the time Jorge and his associates sold Numanthia to LVMH in 2007, there were 85 other wineries in D.O. Toro attempting to emulate the success of Numanthia.

After the sale of Numanthia, Jorge founded Bodegas Ordónez, his personal project in D.O. Toro. One of the wines produced by Bodegas Ordónez, Triton, is considered by many to be Toro’s finest value. As Ordónez himself says, it is an honor and privilege to produce wines from the oldest clones of Tempranillo, planted and cared for with the most traditional methods of viticulture. Bodegas Ordónez has now been renamed Bodegas Vatan, where Jorge pioneers and champions D.O. Toro as one of the world’s finest red wine regions.

Toro is a special region for Jorge and the rest of Jorge Ordónez Selections, because it is the perhaps the region that best embodies the Ordónez philosophy – producing wine from the oldest clones of Spain’s indigenous varieties. The local indigenous grape, Tinta de Toro, is Spain’s oldest and most original clone of Tempranillo. It produces the deepest, most intense expression of Tempranillo in Spain, and it is a grape with a noble history that should be heralded. Bodegas Vatan produces wine from ungrafted, head trained, and dry farmed vineyards of Tinta de Toro planted in 1900, 1916, 1946, and 1962.

Bodegas Vega de Tera is the result of a humble dream that arise in the noble region of Castilla and León, more concretely in a small village of Zamora, located on the Tera river bank.

The twenty-five vineyard hectares are located under cover of the Camino de Santiago (AKA the Way of St. James); with clayey ground, they are worked ecologically since the beginning of the winery by the enviable human team. Five red grape varieties grow in them (Tinta de Toro, Prieto Picudo, Tempranillo, Syrah and Merlot) and one white grape (Verdejo).

Since ancient times, wine and art go hand-in-hand in this region along the pilgrimage route.

To heirs, the New Generation of Winemakers...

1946, the sun is falling down in Boada de Roa, Gabriela holds a bunch of grapes in her hands. She does not know that it is just beginning a dream that would occupy her life: to leave its imprint on riverside history, transmitting its passion for wine and its land to her descendants.

As a result of a young woman’s dream, this is how Bodegas Viyuela was born.

After several generations devoted to cultivation in vineyards, the family Martinez Verdú takes over for their parents. The family cultivates and lavishes attention on the vine with traditional methods, regulating the production in the vineyards with gobelet pruning, hand picked grape harvesting and a total respect for the natural environment of the valley, due to ecological practices in the vineyards, and using new technological innovations while at the same time remaining faithful to the autochthonous variety: Monastrell.

The lands are located in the Northeast of Jumilla, in natural surroundings, near the mountains “La Cingla” and “Los Gavilanes”, which are at 800 m. above sea level, in the “Valle Hoya de Torres”. This valley is characterized by its calcareous, sandy and stony soil, which doesn’t favour the propagation of phylloxera. This allows to grow the sort of vines called “pie franco” (European root) in the microclimate characteristic of this valley, the perfect environment for the cultivation of grapes.