Alvar De Dios Hernandez Toro Aciano El Pego 2016 750 ML

The 2016 Aciano, which has a spectacular nose, with plenty of aromatic herbs, wild berries and flowers, with contained ripeness and great freshness. The palate has chalky minerality and a dry mouthfeel. The soils are very sandy, and phylloxera never attacked the vines in the village of El Pego. The wine is serious, delicious and has an austere mouthfeel, with those grainy, sandy tannins.

Producer Information

Affection and respect for the land, commitment to nature and reunion with tradition are the keys that guide Álvar de Dios Hernández’s winemaking career since, in 2008, he began managing a century-old vineyard owned by his grandfather Donaciano, built on Quaternary sands. in El Pego (Zamora), in the Toro Denomination of Origin. From there arose the red Aciano, which a year later would have a white companion, Vagüera, emerging from a small and historic hawthorn in El Maderal (Zamora), El Rapadal estate, which preserves more than twelve native varieties of white grapes. With that same brand, but coming from another area, Las Mansas, a white Malvasía was born a year later. In 2014, Álvar de Dios gave shape and body to his own winery and, in 2015, he extended his radius of action to one of the most unknown and powerful areas of the wine map: Arribes del Duero. From tiny, centuries-old vineyards, many of them on terraces and precipices above the river, on white slate and pyrite soils, wines emerged that capture the flavor and ancestral culture of that mysterious border land: Camino de los Arrieros, Las Vidres and Yavallo.