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• Exhibitor: AVELINO VEGAS
• Brand name: FUENTESPINA S
• Sector: VINO TINTO CON D.O. CRIANZA

Due to the characteristics of the land and the climate, the Tempranillo grape in the D.O. Ribera del Duero has an exceptional tannic concentration for breeding wines. Bodegas Fuentespina elaborates this wine with grapes from old vines and a aging of 16 months in new French oak barrels.

The wine: Soberly garnet dressed. Roasted and thicket aromas (ripe fruit, dark roasted, chocolate), powerful, full-bodied and very well structured on the palate. Long lasting and very elegant finish.

Avelino Vegas is a family business winery since 1950. We have different wineries in the most important regions of Spain: One of the in the DO Rueda in Santiuste de San Juan bautista – Segovia.  This winery was build up in 2008 and is one of the most modern wineries in the DO region. We control over 500 ha of vineyards. Most of them of the variety of Verdejo are over 70 years old.   In 1994 Avelino Vegas start as well in Ribera del Duero with the winery Fuentespina. Here we control over 600 ha of Tempranillo grapes. The grapes between 30 and 50 years old are destinated to the wines that are generally aged in barrel. And our oldest vineyards, some of them over 100 years old are destinated to our Premium wines. In the winery we have a beautiful (nave de barricas) with over 2.800 barrels of French, American and Caucasian oak which are between 1 and 5 years old. Avelino Vegas also participate in a winery in DO Rioja called Bodegas del Medievo and is also elaborating wines from “Tierra de Castilla y Leon” At the moment we are exporting 30% of our whole production to over 30 different countries. Our main brands Montespina and Fuentespina are available in the whole Spain.