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• Bicentennial Wine Growers
• Behind the wines are hearts with two legs
• The magic of crafts
• Solidarity is one of the winery's values ​​par excellence
• Recommendations Zoltan Nagy for this Christmas

When our journey began, we wanted to have someone who knows about wines, who makes us enjoy these treasures, we are looking for someone who makes us excited through the liquid part of a marriage in which our Gastronomy Ambassador xavi lahuerta he made his magnificent recipes.

We cannot conceive of gastronomy without wines, so I Zoltan nagy, I was chosen as Wine connoisseur, is the sum of person who helps to shine. The world of wine does not need followers, it needs lovers, people who enjoy every sip of a glass.

Bicentennial Wine Growers

En Menade wineriesThey have been winegrowers since 1820. Currently in front of the winery is the sixth generation. The elaboration of the wines the ancestors, they carried out in what today has been baptized as'Menade by Dry it '. Small underground cellar excavated in the rock at the beginning of the XIX century.

La Seca, at that time, was the effervescent urban nucleus of many wineries, a benchmark wine region in the country.

Alejandra, Richard and Marcos, the current generation makes wines for all tastes. They have decided to go a step further by making organic wines, but then they have decided that they want to give back to nature what people have taken from them. That is why now their wines are made free of allergens and histamines. Every day looking for the minimum intervention, every day seeking to be greener, they are becoming more natural. A winery that is always full of life, the farm Menade It has ducks, geese, donkeys in danger of extinction, of the Zamora race. They have also built a hotel for insects, ensuring that more than 40 species live in the proximity of the vineyards and the winery.

Behind the wines are hearts with two legs

I met Alejandra, in a wine bar where I worked in 2012, on an old night. Without knowing who it was, I recommended a white wine for an aperitif that, at that moment, left its mark on me. She allowed herself to be advised, and upon reaching the table, as Wine connoiseur, I brought him a Menad Verdejo appetizer. Which turned out to be the wine her brothers make! Shocked by the unexpected moment, I fell in love with her instantly. From that day on, she has become an inspiration to me. My muse later becomes one of the women of wine, the protagonist of the book ¨Queens of cups¨ that I published in 2017, about ¨The great women of Spanish wine".

Months passed and she already stayed in his life. It was time to travel to the Menade winery, to see the work that the Sanz brothers did in the vineyard and later in the winery. That's where you really understand a project best at the end. Enjoy wine tourism, treading the grapes, soak up the smells of the winery ... is how one can better disseminate and transmit what the winery and those wines are: you need the vineyard to write, or look into your heart, like me do.

The magic of crafts

Lance Armstrong said… "when you don't have a team, you have to look for it in the squad". The mission of Richard Sanz, the winery's winemaker, and Marco, Sanz was to create a team, but they have managed to create a family. Marco is in charge of the vineyard project internally. Young, strong and handsome to rage, he is responsible for the entire viticulture part, that's why walking with him through the countryside, you see how he pampers him and has admiration for his vines.

Richard, is the brain, is the Elon Musk, owner of an obsessive personality. It is like a box of chocolates, apart from that you never know what is going to touch you, it is an explosion of pure and eternal love. For him Menade it's everything.

Solidarity is one of the winery's values ​​par excellence

Menade wineries reaffirms its commitment to solidarity, which is shown every year in the Solidarity Rice, usually held in the month of June, and whose winner allocates the award to the charity of their choice. For obvious reasons, this year it did not take place. But on December 19 at the Rueda winery, an open-air solidarity concert is organized with the Short Celts y The Perets to collaborate with him food Bank.

Recommendations Zoltan Nagy for this Christmas

I recommend you within my website, The custody, a gift of three cool white wines, the history of the winery, perfect to surprise your guests or the most beloved of your family during these holidays. Although I also recommend them separately, em Ecological Menade, a great wine that does not reach € 10, Our and Mission (Verdejo whites from € 12 to € 23 respectively, and the Supernatural, the jewel in the crown € 48,50 per bottle.

More details and all my selection of wines, you will find it on our website Madeinspain.store