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TEL. +34 947 53 01 00 / +34 947 53 00 44 FAX. +34 947 53 00 02
e-mail: vinapedrosa@perezpascuas.com
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| ENOLOGIST FROM PURE GRAPE VINE. | |
| A SUMMARY OF WINES AND HISTORY OF BODEGAS HNOS. PÉREZ PASCUAS ADDRESSED BY JOSÉ MANUEL PÉREZ ENOLOGIST AND A FAMILY MEMBER. | |
Although he is young, he has an important professional experience. He participates as a judge member on many wine tasting in different wine competitions. He has given some lectures about wine growing and enology in fifteen countries, it is worth highlighting, United Kingdom, Sweden, Mexico, Germany, Puerto Rico, Denmark. He is Castilla y León Tasting Committee member and he is also a member of the Ribera del Duero Tasting Committee in the Regulatory Council. Since 1989, he is the Technical Director and enologist of Bodegas Hnos. Pérez Pascuas, the winery known for its Viña Pedrosa where he works very hard with his father, cousins and uncles. The family has given him the highest responsibility even though they have to make important decision together. He knows that he is a qualified man and what he has in his hand with a added value: the love and passion for wine which has been and is the crux of three generations. 1- Since you are the Technical Director and enologist of the winery. Which are the innovation that the winery has carried out? There have been several innovations and with a great importance. We have carried out three steps in the expansion of the winery and three new wines has been incorporated into a very exclusive range that the winery markets. It is worth to highlight that the news plantations of vineyards have increased gradually and today the winery has 125 hectares of own vineyard. Our initial project has gone taking shape. It has developed very skilfully and we have obtained a brilliant consolidation of our wines. This success is sharing for the family team who works for the quality everyday. We have a very qualified staff. 2- Which new wines have arisen from the well-done work and which are their characteristics? Pérez Pascuas Gran Selección was my principal bet. With the first harvest, in 1990, this wine attained the glory. With the old vines and perfect manufacture, the Pérez Pascuas is one of the wines which forms part of a very small elite world wines group. Cepa Gavilan was born with the 2001 harvest. A wine with a modern cut, actual, captivating, sensual and very attractive for general public. In a few years it has placed very well on the market. Its course has been enviable. The last incorporation has been Viña Pedrosa – La Navilla 2004: A wine of height (the label has a mention to the altitude 844 metres) that hoards the originality of a sublime and special wine. It give us great happiness, without doubts. 3- The aging room, where the Viña Pedrosa wines sleep, has doubled his space, but this is not to make more wine. What is its aim? The space makes possible work in a more comfortable way, it means obtain a order and cleanliness that is difficult to improve. In this way we get the best results in our operations mainly when we carry out wines racking. 4- Are you still thinking about the idea of putting a sculpture in Viña Pedrosa to be used as a winery emblem to give an aesthetic singularity and a distinction to the environment? Bodegas Hnos. Perez Pascuas enviorement is spectacular. To the attractive facilities of the three buildings, it adds the dominant view of the vineyard with a exquisite beauty. In a future, we do not rule out the idea to put a sculpture. It should be simple, like us, to keep alive the respect for the terroir... we will see. In this moment we are happy with the sculpture and originality of our wines, this is our best work. 5- You are a model of family company where three generations work hand in hand. Have you ever had any temptation to sell or have you ever received any buying offer by thirds persons? We are very sure about this. There are not any temptation although we have received important and numerous buying offers. Pérez Pascuas family has other values, not only economic ones. There is a work, a passion and a lot of illusion, above all. We have our root and feeling. This was created by us. There was a lot of dedication, effort and overcoming difficulties to get rid of everything easily. 6- When you establish the keys for a top quality wine. Where do you put the stress: on the winery or on the vineyards? I ask you this because I have seen your father caring the pruning, for example. I put the stress on both. The vineyard is the origin of a great wine. However is important a wise and correct winemaking to keep the whole potential of these exceptional grapes. A good enologist must know to make the optimum decision at the right time. That is the secret. 7- As an enologist. What is the most sophisticated step to get a Gran Reserva? The process to make a Gran Reserva wine is long and complex. I like to be very close to the wine I make, I carry out a very close following. I make the most important decisions based on wine tasting. Viña Pedrosa Gran Reserva has to stay two years in cask and a very exciting three years in bottle. It gives you the feeling that the wine has been created has been pampered to reach the top, and the satisfaction feeling is indescribable when this “master piece” reaches the maximum expression. This the perfection. And I feel very satisfied when a Viña Pedrosa or a Pérez Pascuas is so valued,so applauded and so sought-after. To be amongst the best and the biggest world-wide in different International tasting is the maximum level that we can aspire. Today, our Pérez Pascuas holds this place of honour, reserved within the reach of a few persons. I feel really lucky 8- Viña Pedrosa is a reference place, not only as a winery, over the last few years Viña Pedrosa winery has been the place chosen to shoot movies, television series, and international journalist reports. How do you explain that? That is the consequence of a firm and convincing course. The prestige of our brand can explain why so many people have fixed their eyes on Bodegas Hnos. Pérez Pascuas. In last years our vineyards and premises have been the scenery of many events with a great repercussion. Since our humility, we think that we are showing an impeccable image of our winery and our wines. 9- Viña Pedrosa was a pioneer winery in the D. O. Ribera del Duero, which is 25 years old. Who has helped more to attain the prestige the D. O. enjoys today, the winery to D.O. or the other way , I mean the D.O Regulatory Council to the wineries? I think that this is the result of a very deep conviction for both. Viña Pedrosa bet very strong and we have the great satisfaction to have contributed to turn Ribera del Duero D.O. in a very well-known and respected D. O. all over the world. The first steps were carried out in an so effective way and we were at that moment to drive the region. Those years were hard. Only a few people believed at the beginning. Today, 28 years after, the time says that we were right. 10- Are you agree with your colleague Mariano Garcia that wines in this place are on the world premier division? I don’t doubt it. This place and this climate let us get wines with a strong personality. The autochthonous variety, tinto fino well- manufactured, produces singular wines, the unique ones. Our red wines are on the top but we have to keep on working to prop up properly this level and worldwide recognition.To get this, we need severity and seriousness. 11- What are your future challenges for Viña Pedrosa? These are a lot. Our winery for its strength and dynamicity has known to develop and adapt itself to the continuous changes on the viticulture sector. Our firm bets for the wine tourism, the conviction and the global vision of the world let us see the future with a great optimism. We have some projects in mind that we can do. I am sure that there are a lot of write pages to write on the diary-book of Bodegas Hnos. Perez Pascuas. The last creation “Viña Pedrosa Finca La Navilla” As all good enologist, José Manuel Pérez Ovejas is a creator. And a fruit of his labour is “Viña Pedrosa Finca La Navilla”, his last creation. This is a single plot wine; it is the result of several years of technical work, both on the vineyard and on the winery. Pérez Ovejas considers this wine as a “height wine”, regarding the vineyard, it is located at almost 850 metres of altitude above seal level. The plot has a chalky-clay soil; the variety of the grape is Tempranillo (100% tinto fino). This wine has stayed 20 months in French oak and it has bottled in June 2006. The enologist has checked the special characteristic that emphatic of a terroir “so singular”, the Navilla plot, and he has put “all the experience and knowledge”.That is why the experts at the winery are sure that “it was a value contribution to the market and it will complement perfectly to the rest of the wines that this familiar winery makes”. This wine has been presented in the Agroalimentaria Fair in Barcelona, held in March; it has just come out into the market. Due to the scarce production of 14.365 bottles, the winery of Pérez Pascuas bothers has set a commercialization system by very limited batches. Its creator has clear that it gives greats happiness to the producer and the consumer. This report was written by Jose Luis Guerrero and published in the no. 121 of the magazine called “Sector ejecutivo”. |
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