Alfredo Maestro - Lovamor 2023

Alfredo’s ascendance is unique to Alfredo.  His family came to the winemaking town Peñafiel, Ribera del Duero from the Basque Country.  Having grown up amongst the vines, Alfredo had a great interest in wine, and, through encouragement from friends, he started making his own wine in 1998.  That same year he planted his first vineyard on the Rio Duraton near his home.  From the beginning he farmed organically.  In the cellar, Alfredo was working literally “by-the-book”, teaching himself enology from a book and using every trick in it to make a “correct” Ribera del Duero wine: yeasts, acid, enzymes, tannins, color-enhancers, etc. were just some of the techniques utilized.  In search of serious “purple-ness”, this is how many of the modern Ribera del Duero’s of today are produced.  In the early 2000’s Alfredo had a revelation.  He questioned why as an organic farmer use chemicals to make the finished wine; he wanted to work as naturally in the winery as he did in the vineyard, in his word