Castro Ventosa / Fam. Pérez Pereira
Castro Ventosa - a bodega in the heart of the Bierzo vineyards. The DO Bierzo, in northwestern Spain, covers about 3500 hectares of vineyards, 70 % of which are between 40 to over 100 years old. On limestone soils interspersed with sand, the indigenous grape variety Mencía feels particularly at home here
In 1752, a member of the Pérez Pereira family acquired 54 hectares of land in Valtuille de Abajo. Today, the family has been growing wine here for four generations. The most famous winemaker in the region is probably Alvaro Palacios, although his family winery Palacios Remondo is in Rioja. Alvaro came to the region as a flying winemaker for the Castro Ventosa winery, where he learned how to work with Mencía before founding his own bodega, thus making the Bierzo region known throughout the world.Thanks not least to the know-how of Alvaro Palacios and the ambition and experience of the Pérez Pereira family, the two wines El Valtuille and El Castro del Valtuille are now among the best wines made from the Mencía grape.
Red wines from Castro Ventosa / Fam. Pérez Pereira
from Castro Ventosa / Fam. Pérez Pereira
Castro Ventosa - eine Bodega im Herzen des Weinlandes Bierzo. Das DO-Gebiet Bierzo umfasst etwa 3500 Hektaren Reben, wovon 70 % der Rebstöcke 40 bis über 100 Jahre alt sind. Auf dem mit Sand durchsetzten Kalkboden fühlt sich die heimische Traubensorte Mencía sehr wohl. 1752 erwarb ein Mitglied der Familie Pérez Pereira 54 Hektaren Land in Valtuille de Abajo und seit vier Generationen keltert die Familie dort Wein. Bekanntester Weinbauer der Region ist wohl Alvaro Palacios, dessen Familienbetrieb, Palacios Remondo, im Rioja liegt. Als flying winemaker gastierte Alvaro zuerst in der Kellerei Castro Ventosa, wo er den Umgang mit der Mencía- Traube lernte, bevor er später seine eigene Bodega gründete und damit die Region Bierzo weltweit bekannt machte. Nicht zuletzt dank dem Know-how von Alvaro Palacios und dem Ehrgeiz und der Erfahrung der Familie Pérez Pereira gehören die beiden Weine El Valtuille und El Castro del Valtuille zum Besten, was heute aus der Mencía-Traubegekeltert wird.
Producer
Roland und Karin Lenz
In 1994, while Roland Lenz was still studying oenology, he and his wife Karin were able to acquire eight hectares of vines on the Iselisberg. It was a unique opportunity that they seized, even though they were toying with the idea of setting up their own business abroad, far from Switzerland. They actually did so later, but that's another story…
Park
For many years Baur au Lac Wines has been Switzerland's exclusive importer of the sumptuous Cognacs created by Dominic Park. The story goes back to the 1990s when Dominic Park decided to leave his job as a wine trader in London to create his own cognac house with the style he wanted. This is summed up by a very clean vision of what cognac should be: insist on the best origins and a very precise distillation and ageing to give a high-class product in a modern, elegant bottle.
Fattoria Nicodemi / Fam. Nicodemi
Between the deep blue of the Adriatic Sea to the east and the snowy peaks of the Gran Sasso to the west you find the rolling and charming landscape of Abruzzo. On a hilltop lies the pretty village of Notaresco and not far from it the winery of Elena and Alessandro Nicodemi.