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Wine Description
The Story
Bodegas Alejandro Fernández has 200 hectares of top quality vineyards, where the grapes are grown to make its Tinto Pesquera red wine. These vineyards soak up the heat of the sun in a site surrounded by pebbles and poor soil.
In 1972, Alejandro Fernández decided to take advantage of the land and create a wine that would surely do it proud – and this was how Tinto Pesquera came into being.
Wine Information
The 1982 vintage was one of the best in living memory. This lead Alejandro Fernández to carrying out a unique wxperience: making two different wines from the same grapes. Firstly, he took half the bunches and placed then whole onto the old dtone wine press to make wine in the traditional way. Then he de-stemmed the remaining grapes and fermented them in the winery's stainless steel tanks.
Both wines satisfied their maker. The first wine, whic...