Tinto Pesquera

Founded in the early 1970s by Alejandro Fernández and his wife Esperanza Rivera in the village of Pesquera de Duero, Bodegas Tinto Pesquera is one of the defining names of Ribera del Duero. Working from a modest 16th‑century stone wine press, Fernández focused obsessively on Tempranillo at a time when the surrounding hillsides were planted largely to cereals and beet. His conviction that great, ageworthy red wines could be made from pure Tempranillo helped drive the creation of the Ribera del Duero DO in 1982 and t…