WINEMASTERS SPAIN
PRIORAT - RIOJA - PENEDES - RIAS BAIXAS - JEREZ
Wine Producers
Telling the stories about their regions in WineMasters Spain
Alvaro Palacios
Miguel Torres
Penedes - Torres
Fermin Hildalgo
Jerez - Hidalgo la Gitana
Vicky Mareque
Rias Baixas - Paso de Señorans
Isaac Muga
Rioja - Muga
Penedes
Told by the Torres family
Climate change and recuperating ancestral grape varieties are the two main topics of the Penedès episode.
The Torres family is at the forefront of preparations for climate change, it needs serious adaptations in viticulture. For example by placing vineyards on higher altitudes for cooler temperatures.
The family also invested many years in bringing back over 50 ancestral varieties which were found all over Catalonia.
“Spain has to be on every wine list in the world, always.”
Miguel A. Torres
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Priorat
Told by Alvaro Palacios
The spectacular Priorat area once produced Spain's finest wines. But with Phylloxera and (civil) wars approaching, the vineyards were abandoned.
This changed when the young hippie and pioneer Álvaro Palacios decided not to work in his family winery, but to start a winery on the steep hills of Priorat with one goal: to make fine wines from a single variety, as is done at Bordeaux’s famous Château Pétrus, where he was partially trained.
"I was the apple of my father's eye, and then I left. So, I can imagine it was not nice for him." - Alvaro Palacios
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Jerez
Told by Fermin Hidalgo
Sherry is made in Jerez and is probably the most well-known wine style from Spain, but it fell victim to its own success with the export of sweet sherries.
The old Hidalgo family produced sherry from the start and has always focused on dry types of sherry, especially Manzanilla, the driest wine in the world, because "the flor of the wine eats up all the sugar".
These wines are very popular in the sommelier scene.
"Sherry is everything. It can be an aperitif and it can finish a meal and do everything in between. But above all, it is a wine." - Christy Canterbury
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Rioja
Told by the Muga Family
Told by the five tall nephews of the Muga family, Tim Atkin MW and Christy Canterbury MW.
In this episode, a lot of attention is given to wood. At the Muga winery, the whole process of fermentation is done in wood. New techniques are combined with a very traditional approach.
Rias Baixas
Told by Mareque-Bueno family of Pazo de Señorans
This remarkable success story of pioneering in Rias Baixas. In Rias Baixas, a lot of people have small amounts of Albariño behind their houses.
Mrs. Marisol Bueno lobbied just as long to get a serious own appellation and Albariño is now the number 1 white variety of Spain.
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Wine Professionals
The two wine professionals in WineMasters Spain
Christy Canterbury
Master of Wine
Tim Atkin
Master of Wine
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PRIORAT, SPAIN
The young hippie and pioneer Álvaro Palacios decided not to work in his family winery, but to start a winery on the steep hills of Priorat with one goal: to make fine wines from a single variety, as is done at Bordeaux’s famous Château Pétrus, where he was partially trained.
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