Alejandro Fernández Tinto Pesquera

Alejandro Fernandez is the life image of a self-made man. A man who, from his youth, and while he earned his own life with odd jobs, he was feeding a dream: to create his own winery and develop famous red wines from Ribera del Duero.
Following the family tradition learned from his father, Alejandro made wine every year with grapes from small vineyards. But had to wait until 1972 to have your own true Winery: a small stone press, the sixteenth century, where he performed most of the process. It took 10 years for the Tinto Pesquera winery to become, more or less how it looks today. Although the old press is preserved.
The beginnings were not easy. At that time it was normal to replace the strains for irrigation beets. But Alejandro was planting vineyards and was also the first to introduce the cultivation on wire in the DO Ribera del Duero (in the 'Viña Alta'). Some even took him for crazy.
The time would have to put things in place. Over 200 acres of beautiful vineyards supplying the winery today. Gravel on terraces, others in high plateaus (like 'Llano Santiago', at an altitude of 1000 meters), that gives all its nuances to the recognized Pesquera red wines.
And all of Tempranillo, the "king of grapes", a delicate variety in which Alejandro is a master.
The results of that effort are now known and appreciated throughout the world. Wines in the wood holds enormous respect for the fruit, wine, over the years, become more complex and nuanced without losing its original character.